dailydatewithgod

Our hearts have the capacity of love’s fullness at all times.  This capacity has always been with us but we are not always aware and connected to it. We tend to spend most of our time in our heads.  Our minds are brilliant at figuring things out and providing the tools we need to operate in the world.  But a mind without connection to the heart is chaos.  To be in cohesion means a connected relationship between our heads and our hearts.  It is letting go of the mind needing to run the show and allowing the rhythm of our hearts guide us.  It will guide us through our breath, in the flow, and the sharing of an energy that originates beyond ourselves.  When I am in distress and survival mode I shut down my heart and go straight into my head thinking it will keep me safe. This is an old coping mechanism that may have worked at some point. God gently encourages me to a place of cohesion by taking a deep breath, placing my hand on my heart and remembering that connecting with where God dwells in me is the safest place to be.  Being in cohesion then happens as my focus and attention on the heart travels to my head and the rest of my self.

My prayer for us is the courage to pause and seek cohesion when we want to shut down the heart and protect ourselves.

If connecting with the cohesion of a heart and mind rhythm is what will expand our being and presence in this world, how could God help you to  seek cohesion this day?  Share in the comments.

The nearer we area to God the more we can experience the truth of who we are.  The funny part is how often we push God away under the guise that we are not worthy.  The real reason is our thinking that God sees us as we see.  We place limits on God and how close God wants to be to us based on our thinking. As I spend more and more time with God on our dates, I see how much I limit my understanding of God.  I presume that God would not accept the elements of me that I do not accept about me.  My genuine desire is to draw close to All That Is. It is a letting go that what I think of me is more important than what God thinks o f me.

My prayer for us is the courage to follow the desire of our hearts and draw closer to God beyond our understanding.

If closeness with God means we are able to fully experience the truth of ourselves, what might you be reluctant to allow God to get close to  about you today?  Share in the comments.

God’s magnitude of love that directs the entire universe cannot be contained in our heads.  The greatest act we can take is a surrender to the love of God and be enveloped by it.  Instead of judging ourselves for not being loving in a given situation, we can acknowledge that we neglected to let go and take on another point of view.  In that moment where we lacked a loving response we were holding on to the idea that the best response would come only from our heads.  I think of it as moments when I forgot to pause, take a breath and drop my thinking from my head into my heart.  It is in my heart that another possibility awaits.  Our hearts bear the signature of God.  It is a relief to know that to reach another perspective all it takes is a breathing pause and a redirection of attention.

My prayer for us is the gift of the pause so that we may be willing to let go of our head’s response and breathe in another response from our hearts today.

If you believe God designed your heart with all the knowledge of love, would you be willing to pause to connect with its possibilities today? Share in the comments.

God knows no limits.  The reaching of Our Creator far exceeds anything we could possibly imagine.  It is why we are invited again and again to turn over our thinking to Our Creator.  The invitation to dance in the abundance of possibility.  The encouragement to step into the unknown so we can be with The Known.  The quiet suggestion to let go just a little bit into the beauty of imagination.  God appeals to our hearts and our souls to join God in the totality of all that is. God wants abundant joy for us because it is God’s reality.  We all know the harshness of limits.  We feel the pain when we cannot get past something or through something.  We have lived the disheartening experience of seeing the limits we place on ourselves and do not know how to move forward, wondering if there is another way. I am humbled most when I realize I have placed these same limits on God by not inviting God in to change my heart and my mind.  I have decided on some level that not even God could surmount and bring an abundance of joy to what I am experiencing.  Yet, with a love that abounds beyond my imagination, God reaches out his hand, touches my cheek and whispers,  “I AM.  I AM With You.  I AM Within You.”

My prayer for us is the courage to acknowledge when we have placed our limits on the abundance of God by thinking that God thinks as we do.

If God’s abundance means that whatever we are meant to be is beyond what we know, how could God comfort you in taking a step into the unknown today?  Share in the comments.

An awareness of the presence of God is all that is needed.  We do not need to understand God or even believe in God for God’s presence to be made real in our lives.  The simplicity of awareness creates an opening for the presence of All That Is to enter into the spaces of our heart that already have an awareness of God.  Then we find ourselves remembering what we have known all along.  The re-awakening  of our hearts in the recognition of God is like the re-lighting of a candle that has been blown out by the wind.  The candle lights from its present state.  It does not need to return to its original form and start over again.  The purpose of a candle is to be lit and enlighten everything around it.  Our hearts light up with the awareness of God because they can now reflect the truth of that which created it.  When I remember that I am lit up in my heart by remembering the presence of God within me, my awareness of God’s presence in every area of my life begins to enfold.

My prayer for us is the courage to be awakened in the awareness of God’s presence lighting up our hearts and allowing us to see all of our lives with awareness today.

If the light of God is always within you, what could the power of this light make you aware of where all you see is darkness today? Share in the comments.

God’s depth goes beyond our understanding.  We are invited into relationship with Our Creator who sees us as a profound expression of love.  We are the ultimate fruition of a desire to share the love that is with all that is. We do not need to strive to prove ourselves in any way, shape, or form.  We are asked to show up and be the truest expression of ourselves.  I know I have had moments when I witnessed another human being act with such profound love that I wondered from where it came.  It came from the source of all love.  It came from a place inside of them that was beyond shape and form.  It happened when they connected with the deepest part of their hearts and allowed themselves to be used as a vehicle of love.  I have also experienced this within me when I embraced the grace of forgiveness of my father.  After many years of continually asking God to see as God sees and acting from a place of love, I finally wanted with a profundity I had never known before to be at peace with myself and with him.

My prayer for us today is the willingness to believe that the profound essence of love exists within each one of us and is capable of amazing things today.

If you are equipped with a profound capability to love beyond what you can imagine, how would you like God to reveal to you today the truth of your nature?  Share in the comments.

God is whole as are God’s creations.  The notion that we are parts is erroneous.  We have difference elements that make up our wholeness but everything we do affects the others.  Being coherent means acknowledging that all the parts of ourselves work together to create an impact.  What we are thinking and feeling affects our physical way of being and vice versa.  Our spiritual awareness affects our mind and our body.  God created us with a coherence that allows for all these elements to work in cooperation with one another.  It becomes a model of how we can work in cooperation with the whole world around us.

My prayer for us today is the courage to notice the coherence that exists within us and outside of us.

If you believe that God provides the coherence to be in cooperation with yourself, what would that look like for you today? Share in the comments.

God calls upon us with each breath to a meditation of our full existence.  When we breathe, we say yet to life and invite in the possibilities for what can occur in that time until the next breath.  Sounds like a lot for what is only seconds in duration.  Life is lived in moments and seconds.  We do not have years or decades, it only appears that way.  This moment is all there is.  Our breath is an invitation to be present to the moment we are in.  Our breaths become a meditation on the preciousness of life.

My prayer for us today is the courage to notice one of our calls to be mindful of the gift of our lives through our breath today.

If you could choose how many times today to be aware of God’s gift of life to you, how many breaths would you choose?  Share in the comments.

God is always with us on this journey, even when we do not feel God. Faith means living in the unknown. Our hearts have the capacity of living in the unknown.  If we are open to letting go of surviving in our mind long enough to allow our heart to speak.  We can experience the poetry and rhythm of trust in God in the living vibration of our heart.  God invites us as we grow and mature into a relationship from the heart.  I was never particularly fond of poetry because I felt as though I had to think to hard to understand it.  But I have always loved music.  Music is the rhythm of the poetry that my heart beats to. I have learned that is about connecting to the vibration of the experience of being alive.  That  Perhaps it is about connecting to the rhythm of love either through the words or their vibration, whichever allows us to be more present in the space of our hearts.

My prayer for us is the courage to step outside of heads and enter into the space of faith by being with the vibration of love today.

If the rhythm of love is already beating in your heart, is it the vibration of the music or poetry of your life that draws you more into faith today?  Share in the comments.

God has altered thinking. Being in relationship with God means that we are continually offered an alternative to our limited view of life.  There is a reason why so many significant religious and spiritual rituals take place over a table often referred to as an altar.  A table is where a meal is enjoyed.  A meal is composed of elements that were wholly offered up and have been altered through the process of mixing, heating, and or seasoning.  We do the same with our lives.  We present to God ourselves at the altar of our life.  God invites us to see it differently.  God invites us to enjoy the mixture of our experiences.  God invites us to be warmed by the heated elements of our lives that created us anew.  God invites us to savor the experiences that have seasoned us.  God can make a feast of love out of whatever we offer up.  God shows us that what is placed on the altar can be altered if we are open to seeing as God sees.

My prayer for us is the courage to accept God’s invitation to the table of our lives and savor the altered perspective of who we have become.

If God can alter your thinking to view the experiences of your life that you have seasoned as something to savor instead of throw away, what would you present to God to be altered today?  Share in the comments.