dailydatewithgod

Sharing my experiences and understandings of the Great I AM.

Mar 10

Be Of Wonder!

by Colleen
God has designed a world of beauty for us to enjoy.  Even more magical is the extent to which God has made present the beauty of love in so many ways.  It is a wonder we don’t fall over in the sheer joy of how much we are loved when we look at all that is around us and within us.  Children do it all the time because they exist in a state of wonder.  The world and its surroundings hold such fascination because they are interested in discovering it.  The quality of wonder is still within us as adults we just become numb to it.  We put a higher importance on knowing the answer, having it all figured out, and being an authority.  We intelligently recognize patterns and then to save brain power memorize them so we don’t have to do things from scratch all the time.  These are wonderful tools of our mind for living, but they can numb us to the wonder and beauty of life that is present with us at all times.
My prayer for us is the curiosity to find wonder in the beauty and love within and outside ourselves today.
If God created all things with love and beauty, what wonderful elements of life are you interested in exploring today?  Share in the comments.

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Mar 9

Be Of Starting!

by Colleen
God stands with us and within us as the greatest measure of loving presences in existence.  God does not stand separate from creation.  How could God separate from that which is an extension of God? We are not separate from God but believe that we are.  This belief is what drives us to take on the need to control our lives, think we are responsible for more than we are, and rebel against authority because in our eyes we have been abandoned.  It is an illusion of our ego that we are separate from God or could ever be. EGO=Edging God Out.  So how do we go about keeping this illusion from running our lives?  We start by recognizing it.  We start by acknowledging it as something we adopted to help us get through something at some point in our lives.  We start by admitting that it no longer creates the sense of peace and safety that it may once has. When we grow up, we grow out of ways of thinking and being that no longer serve us if we have the courage to embrace change.  It is simple but not easy.  I find the willingness to let go of one old idea of how I am separate from God is enough to get me started today.
My prayer for us today is the courage and willingness to notice where we think we are separate from God in our lives and how that area of our life is working today.
If we are not separate from God, what could God do that would help us to start remember our connection today?  Share in the comments.

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Mar 8

Be Of Beingness!

by Colleen

God is beingness of love.  When we find ourselves living and being the demonstration of love it is God working through us.  It isn’t about a feeling that we have it is about who we are being.  You could also look at it as who we are not being.  Being Love is who we are at our core.  The times we find ourselves acting in opposition to love or apathetic about love, we are showing that we are disconnected from our true self.  At the time of our creation and even before God fashioned a beingness of love in us.  We cannot run or hide from it.  We can pile lots of stuff on top of it.  We can deny that it is true for us.  We can masquerade around as though we are not effected by our being anything less than love.  In the end, however we only hurt ourselves.  The illusion that we buy into is thinking that the reason we are not able to be the love we are is because of other people or situations we have experienced.  But no person or situation is greater than God.  It is about us claiming our connection to God which never goes away no matter how distant we feel from it.  Sometimes I find myself saying is God,” I know you are here with me in the dark even when I don’t want to be here with me.  I wish I could feel you but it’s just not happening right now.  Help me to carry on being in love through my actions while my thoughts and feelings catch up.”

My prayer for us is the courage to hold on to the knowledge of our hearts which tell us who we really are even when we don’t feel like being love today.
If God is greater than any person or circumstance who acts out of a lack of love, what would your prayer to God be to encourage you to continue to be love in the face of lack today?  Share in the comments.

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Mar 7

Be Of Purpose!

by Colleen
God guides us through an internal knowing.  From this knowing extends our sense of purpose.  We can sense that knowing if we slow down and take a moment to connect.  This is where my date time with God, otherwise known as daily prayer and meditation, comes into play.  We all know when we are choosing from our hearts.  We sense a peace in knowing we are making the right decision for that moment. Our purpose comes in living from our hearts.  Our purpose is to be happy.  God wants us to be happy.  Living from our hearts enables that happiness to guide our purpose.  We tend to think of happiness as something we gain from outside of ourselves.  We think that when we reach a certain stature, own a certain item, or have a net worth of a certain amount we will be happy.  We can certainly enjoy these things but because they do not come from our hearts, they are fleeting.  God invites us quietly and from within ourselves to explore our true happiness and fulfill our purpose of living from our hearts.
My prayer for us is the willingness to spend some time in meditation today getting to know our hearts and thus our purpose.
If all you needed to do to connect with your purpose is spend a few minutes meditating on your heart each day, how could God assist you in making it happen?  Share in the comments.

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Mar 6

Be Of Soleness!

by Colleen
God has one directive and it is love.  We are creations of God so our directive is the same.  Our sole purpose is to be the expression of love. It is easy to get distracted and think we are here for other reasons.  The job, the relationship, the house, the car, the political cause are the content through which we can be the expression of love.  Those things, however are not the sole purpose of our being.  Our sole purpose is being the presence of love expressed in all areas of our lives.  Sometimes the most powerful opportunities come in the smallest of experiences. The other day I found myself in a room full of people for a quarterly meeting.  We all do the same kind of work and gathered for some updates.  I could easily convince myself that my purpose is to prove that I am doing an excellent job or ask the right questions.  I did participate, ask questions, and share my experience but the interactions that powerfully touched my heart were in the smiles and hellos we exchanged.  The power of looking someone in the eye, acknowledging her presence and listening to the excitement about her new grand baby allowed me to feel the joy. Being present as a stance for the love of who each person is in that moment is my sole purpose and it is where my joy was that day.
My prayer for us is the courage to remember the soleness of purpose by being the presence of love today.
If God is the presence of love and we are created by God then what joyful might you obtain by solely focusing on your ability to be the presence of love for yourself and others today?  Share in the comments.

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Mar 5

Be Of Permission!

by Colleen
God loves because God is love.  At the end of the day we do not need to permit love for it to occur.  It happens as naturally as the wind blowing.  For me the difficulty comes in allowing myself to receive the love. I was talking with a close friend of mine a couple of days ago and she expressed  how important it was to her that she hear what I had to say.  A simple enough statement but one that made me want to cry.  I spent many years of my life thinking people weren’t listening and therefore did not care what I had to say.  I thought I needed to rush through whatever it is that I was saying and not take up any more of their time than necessary.  A story based on some circumstances from the past that were not happening in the present.  Allowing for love in whatever form comes in giving myself permission to be in the present moment.  Permission to let go of the stories that developed out of circumstances I am not currently experiencing.  God gives me the courage to permit myself to receive love.
My prayer for us is the willingness to let go of what is keeping up from receiving love in whatever from it presents itself.
 
If God is ready and waiting to bestow love on you, what might you need to permit yourself to let go of to make room for that love today?  Share in the comments.

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Mar 4

Be Of Seeing!

by Colleen
We can choose with any breath, at any moment, to enter into a deeper sense of reality by connecting with our hearts.  Our power comes from the coherence created by the joining of our hearts and minds.  God wants us to fully experience all life has to offer not just in mind but also body, soul, and spirit.  This means bringing all of ourselves to the table.  This means exploring the world of inner selves so that we might change the perception of our outer reality.  Recently I was reminded of one of my favorite quotes by Marcel Proust: ” The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”  All that we perceive outside of ourselves comes from the perception inside of ourselves.  This is why two people present at the same event can have two completely different experiences. The fullness of life’s experiences comes in broadening the eyes through which we see.  A joining of our hearts and minds allows us to not just see but feel and connect with what we are seeing.  Our hearts encourage us to place ourselves in oneness with the experience we are seeing.  Our hearts invite us to see the similarities and connections between our inner experience and outer reality.  Our minds alone see the differences but our hearts allow us to embrace the beauty of those differences because we can simultaneously sense the deeper similarities.
My prayer for us is the courage to seek a new voyage by shifting our seeing from only a mindset to a mind and heart set today.
If we could honor that which is outside of ourselves by seeing it through the eyes of our hearts, what new voyages of discovery might you experience today?  Share in the comments.

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Mar 3

Be Of Accessibility!

by Colleen
God draws as near to us as we are willing to be in closeness to God.  We tend to think that God does not want to draw so close to us, but it is we who do not want to draw close to us.  We have judged ourselves as not worthy or fitting of the love that God embodies.  It makes no sense that the Creator would not want to be a full part and as accessible to His or Her Creation in all ways possible.  When we are willing to let go of the idea that God thinks as we do, then we are open to allowing God full access to us.  God wants to take up as much space in our hearts for which we are willing to make room.  I very vividly remember that night on the beach with the loving presence Jesus standing behind me, his arms wrapped around me and hands on my heart.  He was gently pulling at my chest and I thought my ribs would break open as tears streamed down my face.  He comforted me and said we needed to open up my heart so I could release the anger and make room for the love. I remember the feeling of surrender and willingness to allow God to reach within my very being and guide me to let go of that which did not belong in my heart.  I had no ideas how much joy I would be opened to after the pain subsided or how much lighter my heart feels as it beats in my chest today.  I am so glad that I had the courage to choose full accessibility.
My prayer for us is the willingness to choose how accessible we want God to be to our hearts today.
If God created you out of love and wants to open you up to experience a fullness of love in your heart, what areas or thoughts might you be willing to make accessible to God today?  Share in the comments.

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Mar 2

Be Of Reference!

by Colleen
Taking in the knowledge we are created by an everlasting being of love comes in waves.  The first step is acknowledging the presence of love in your heart.  We have all had moments when we felt and behaved in a loving manner of which we did not think we were capable.  Those moments are the times the love of our hearts was guiding our thoughts and actions.  A time when our thinking did not get in the way of our being. When we know who we are in reference to our own truth in any given circumstance, we can act from the being of our heart instead of having to think our way through it. God calls on us to use God as our frame of reference for the understanding of ourselves and choosing a way of being.
My prayer for us is the willingness to let go of measuring ourselves by the outside world’s standards and choose God as our frame of reference so that we might be from our hearts today.
 
If God knows and loves us thoroughly no matter what, how could God encourage you today to use this understanding as your frame of reference for being?  Share in the comments.

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Mar 1

Be Of Sustenance!

by Colleen

God is All That Is.  When we are aware of our creation from God we realize that we are complete and enough.  When I lose sight of this nature of myself, the quickest way for me to be reminded is to take a breath.  I didn’t request the breath, it just came.  I didn’t have to pray for hours or weeks so that one more breath might come, it just came.  So if God readily sustains me with the very thing that keeps me alive, why would I think that God will fall short of providing what I need in other areas of my life? Perhaps why isn’t the real question but a way of pushing away the fact that the reality of God is so far beyond my comprehension, I barely even know how to wrap my head around it.  Because I am so invested in knowing and understanding, I want to stay stuck in wrapping my head around it.  God invites me to lay my head to rest upon His chest and just enjoy being with the miracle of each breath as it comes and goes.  I am quite certain that God gets a good laugh at watching me spin around in my head trying to figure it out.  And yet delights in my appreciation of the sustenance of life that is provided first in the breath and next in whatever I am willing to open my heart to receive.

My prayer for us today is the courage to let go of the why just long enough to open our hearts to the sustenance of life God is providing right now in this moment for us just because.
If you am willing to trust that God provides what you need to stay alive through your breath, what else might God provide today without you even having to ask? Share in the comments.

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