dailydatewithgod

A bright shinning light lives within you.  A connection to All That Is moves through you.  A knowing of heart consciousness exudes from your very being.  God is in the flesh in you.  We never know in any given moment when we are being the love that we are for another person.  We expect it to happen in big and profound ways, but what if God does not have the same expectations?  What if God’s ways are much simpler than our own? What if the great mission of our being means we are to just be today?  If all you had to do to be successful today was be present in the moment you are in, would it be enough for you?  Would you think you had to do more to prove your worth?  Or might you be willing to trust that God’s creation in you is enough and just let it be?

Did you notice the sound today?  Our hearts pumping blood through our veins, air coming in and out of our nostrils, our being put on our skin, our teeth chewing our food, our nails scratching an itch.  Do you hear their rhythm today? Did you pay attention to which ones were louder or quieter?  Every facet of our lives seems to have a rhythm to it.  Some of it is so subtle that we can barely heart it. Some of it we just take for granted and don’t notice any more.  If this body we inhabit has all these sounds going on that we are oblivious to, what else in our lives have we tuned out?  What other rhythms and patterns are creating the soundtrack of our lives.  Even the silence has its own rhythm.  I remember one night on a retreat many years ago where in the stillness of the mountain I could hear the blood pumping though my veins and it was so loud, it was almost disturbing.  Yet I also sensed it was what united me with all of nature that I was presently standing in.  It was like an invitation to dance right there on the mountain top. What rhythms might we be able to tune into if we asked God to open our ears and our awareness to them?  What soundtracks of our lives could we be dancing to right this moment?

The truth of love is simple.  It exists.  It has no bounds.  It is beyond  our full understanding.  It moves and breathes in and through us at all times.  It binds us to each other, to ourselves and it shows up in the simplest of fashions when we least expect it.  Walking in a relationship with God means surrendering over and over to the magnificent power of love.  It means stepping back from the confusion of the world and remembering where we come from, who we are at our core and what is most important.  If we awaken to the power of love to transform our hearts our eyes will be opened to its simplistic presence over and over again in moments where we were previously unaware.  So what does this mean to our every day lives that get swept away by the complicated calls and pushes to do and improve and find fault?  To me it means over and over again with each breath asking God to open the eyes of my heart to the simplistic presence of love where it seems most absent.  God I do not see love in this annoying person, show me how you simply enjoy them.  God how can being in fear of my father entering my room at night show me the road to love now that I am on the other side?  God, I seem to have gone off course from my core at this moment because I cannot see love, show me how to return.

My prayer for us is a willingness to reach for the hand and power of God so that it can be placed on our hearts and touch the core of who we are once again this day.

If in the first moment of your day in which you recognized your release of your core you reached for the hand of God, what would you ask for? Share in the comments.