dailydatewithgod

God is 100%.  God is in this deal with us.  God did not create us and then take a vacation.  God is ever-present and actively pursuing us.  Due to our fixed expectations of God we often do not see the divine involvement in our lives.  God invites us to acknowledge the presence of Spirit and join a partnership that thrives.  If we are busy thinking about how we are separate, not enough, need to be or have more, then we are on a different frequency from God.  God sees us as whole and complete and the love with which we were created.  God will not lower his thinking to fit ours. We must step up our perspective by letting go of our thinking based primarily on the ego if we are to be in equal partnership.  My prayer for us a willingness to accept God’s partnership invitation by noticing where our thinking about ourselves or others is less than God’s thinking of us today.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is enchanting.  God is mystery. God is delightful.  As children of an All Powerful being we are invited to discover a world of possibilities.  We are tasked with a chance to explore a million different things and learn from them.  By stepping into this world of learning our hearts grow.  By discovering what is out there we open up our inner world.  To walk this path of discovery with God asks us to stay connected to the one who has opened up the world to us.  When we are aligned with who God knows us to be we are not subject to falling for the illusion of becoming defined by the things that happen.  Each experience has the potential to define us or shape us.  We get to choose.  When we are misaligned we define ourselves by our outer experiences.  When we are aligned we are able to stay rooted in the truth of who we are and remember that we are here to discover.  In this universe of learning where being teachable is the ultimate attitude we can discover a multitude of things with each experience. No longer are circumstances good or bad.  Instead occurrences become those that either aid us in growing closer or further from the love that we are and remember ourselves and every one else to be.  My prayer for us is a willingness to practice discovering the moments of today as opportunities for growth in love  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God resounds.  God implores. God abounds.  To be aligned with God is to say yes to a calling to live fully.  To claim the abundance that is God as part of our human experience is not something easily understood.  It seems to go contrary to a number of ideas from various authoritative sources that we are to be simple and small.  The confusion stems from not acknowledging that within each of us exists dual natures.  Yes we are fully children of an Almighty and Abundant God.  And yes we live and inhabit this physical universe that has limitations. The key is to remember which one gets the last word.  Given that our creator is the originator of the physical universe, I choose to place my emphasis on the former.  There is a line in book Alcoholics Anonymous which simply states, “Either God is everything or he isn’t.” Each moment of our lives is an opportunity to place emphasis on which we believe-that God is either everything or God is not.  If I claim to believe that God is everything and I believe that no matter what happens or appears to happen cannot undo God then I can rely upon the opportunity to live fully.  I can take the chance that there is something other than the fear story that is running through my mind. God was in existence long before human fear ever appeared on the landscape.  The gift of the compassion of God is in God’s awareness of our fearful nature.  God does not expect us to not experience fear, but hopes that we will ask for God’s help in moving forward any way.  If we emphasize all the reasons there are in our lives to step away or play small because we fear the outcome then we step away from our belief that God is more than our human nature.  If we emphasize our belief despite all seeming evidence to the contrary of God being who God has always shown he/she/it to be, then we can courageously step into a full life.  My prayer for us is a desire to emphasize our belief in the nature of God as being more powerful than whatever we might fear for one of our decisions today.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is remarkable.  God is undefinable.  God is moving.  We enter into relationship with Our Creator by accepting an invitation to be a part of a precious experience of life.  All of life is sacred because it has been created from the sacred Spirit.  Its root and thus its energy is eternal. There is nothing in existence that doesn’t make sense or lacks the wonder of God.  We fill our heads with specific definitions of sacred and turn a blind eye to all that does not fall into those definitions.  When we are willing to step outside of what we think we know and embrace the mystery of the sacred presence in all things, we notice a preciousness of life that seemed to not be there before.  As a direct results of my daily dates with God I notice that the world holds a wonder that was not there before.  It is as though time with God has let me in on a little secret.  The secret of knowing that no matter what happens I can find something precious in it.  It can be a simple as the miracle of a tear on my cheek that cools my face when I am hot with sadness and anger.  It can be as delightful as feeling the corners of my mouth curve upward as I smile upon hearing my niece’s voice.  These experiences coming with one breath after another reveal themselves as the sacred preciousness of being alive.  My prayer for us today is an openness to seeing the sacred preciousness of our own lives in one moment today.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is pure. God is unrefined. God is essence.  We look at the world for all its color and grandeur and there are lots of it.  We are dazzled by flashiest and celebrity.  We are amazed by grand gestures of ceremony and supernatural feats.  It is as though are eyes are meant to see only the spectacular and the exciting.  They get our juices flowing. Those who are living examples of amazement inspires us.  It makes us want to be a part of something bigger than ourselves so that we can experience being the magnificent.  But each of those moments and people started out from a simple space and time.  They were once the purest form of their expression.  A human being taking a breath.  A planted seed.  A team running around the field.  A performer showing up for practice.  If we are not present to the moment we are in we will not be present for the moment in which the result or progress occurs.  We may not value the beauty of the inspiring if we do not show up for the breath that brings about the ultimate demonstration of miraculous.  My experience has taught me that God marvels in our usualness as much as our magnificence.  If we were to embrace ourselves the same way it would mean many moments of inspiration and miracles.  When I have my date time with God it starts by centering myself and slowing my breath.  Each day God is there to greet me as though my attention to the simplest part of being alive draws God closer.  Never before have I had such value placed on the usualness of being alive.  My prayer for us today is a willingness to see the usual elements of our lives as the magnificence of being alive and know it is enough.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God believes.  God is certain. We are seen with the eyes of the One that perceives our full capabilities.  God never knows us as anything less than our greatest potential. That is the truth and wisdom we were endowed with at the moment of our creation.  Our life consists of reconnecting with the truth of who we are.  We take on stories to explain our experiences that do not resonate with our true hearts.  These stories often take on a life of their own and we get lost in them.  We believe they are who we truly are.  We lose touch with the potential that lies deep within us that has been there from the beginning.  Letting go of our stories becomes the spiritual work that reconnects us with God and with our potential for love.  My prayer for us today is a willingness to believe that deep within us lies the potential for great love that has always been there.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is our root.  We were created from God and we flourish when we are connected to our roots.  When we are in a space of grounding we become an extension of our roots.  We can never be uprooted from God, but we can decide whether or not we want to deepen our roots.  We mistakenly think that we are meant to out grow our roots but why would we want to separate from that which nourishes us so completely?  We can flower and create shape while still being rooted.  We can grow tall and strong while still being rooted.  Most importantly when we are firmly rooted we are not easily swayed by things that happen around us.  We know that we can always draw upon the strength of our roots by grounding ourselves.  It sounds like a description for farming trees but nature always gives us insight into how to be in relationship with God and with life.  A tree never frets about how it will get water.  A flower never freaks out that it is not appealing enough for a bee to pollinate it.  We see ourselves as separate because we have higher developed minds but that is just our ego’s perception. All of God’s creation are designed to point us in the direction of living in harmony and oneness with God.  If we look at those elements of God’s creation that are physically rooted we get an idea of what it means to be grounded and fully connected with Our Creator.  My prayer for us today is an openness to seeing the beauty of embracing our rootedness in the love of Our Creator.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is real. God is firm.  We can unabashedly rely on the reality of God if for no other reason than the presence of our own breath.  We can call it a million different things, but God, Spirit, Infinite Intelligence is always present in the substance of our breath.  It is our breath that centers us, calms our nervous systems, allows us to take one more step, get through a difficult moment, and know that there is something more there.  The physical reality of God is present in so many forms but in our breath it comes intimately close to us.  It circulates through our whole being. It comes into contact with every cell.  It is life itself.  God is simple and gentle in our breath that we hardly recognize it.  We take it for granted until we find ourselves without it.  My prayer for us today is an awareness of the presence of the substance of God in one of our breaths.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is Brilliant!  God is Audacious!  We think that we have an understanding of God that we can rely upon and then we have an experience where we feel like God is absent.  We find ourselves frustrated, let down, and hurt. Perhaps we feel angry and resentful towards God, the individuals, and the institutions who passed on the idea that God can be relied upon.  I have had many of those experiences in my life.  To top it off I judged myself as being a bad girl because I was angry with God for what I perceived as abandonment.  In developing this dating relationship with God I have come to understand things differently. For example, I had to let go of the notion that I could conceive of how God is completely in my mind. From there I was willing to look again at what had occurred in those moments of abandonment and disappointment.   I had to ask God where He/She/It was in those most needed times and be open to what answers might come. Then and only then was I able to hear what my heart knew all along.  I began to see that when I boxed God in to my perception of what God is supposed to be I was always going to come up short.  In order to mature in a relationship with God I think we all have to come to those questions. God is endowed with a pluckiness for life of all creation.   God will stand courageously with us as we ask those questions and wait in the quiet patient spaces as the answers come.  My prayer for us today is a willingness to trust in the pluckiness of God as we demonstrate an earnest attempt at engaging in mature conversations with God.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is fun.  God is joy. Its seems too simplistic to think of God in such elemental ways, but then again if God was only what we perceive God to be it would be limited.  We can only create in our minds something that is connected to something with which we already are familiar. In order to go beyond that we need to surrender the notion that we alone can conceive of every possibility.  It is a surrendering of our ego mind to admit that we can conceive of every possibility.  In my experience while I may fight admitting that I don’t know at first, it is usually a relief.  To not have it all figured out allows for a breath, a moment to be, and a chance to play at life.  The author, Florence Scovel-Shin wrote a book called “The Game of Life and How to Play It.”  She speaks of connecting with the Spirit of All That Is which has infinite power.  The notion that one might be able to play at life because one does not have to be so bogged down by having it figured out goes hand in hand.  Life is much easier when I don’t have to know things I don’t know.  Life is filled with grace when I  give myself permission to learn and try things out.  Life is joyful when I can play at being.  If my intention is to learn and to grow then I can’t do it wrong, but I get to make adjustments.  My prayer for us today is an openness to the idea of learning to play at this game of life.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen