dailydatewithgod

God is pure.  God is whole.  God is sacred.  We too are pure, whole, and sacred but we have forgotten our roots.  We have opted to identify with the experiences we have in this life as who we are.  However, at the core of our being resides a oneness of love that surpasses all understanding.  This is the place where God breathes truth and light.  Every breath is an invitation to take hold of this oneness into our entire being.  In doing so, we embark on a state of being inspired by love.  From this state of pureness, wholeness, and sacredness we see things as God sees things.  We recognize the futility of our stories and are able to see them as simply a story we layered on top of who we truly are to make sense of the world as best as we could.  God calls us to embrace the vision of us that God always has of us no matter how many extra layers we have accumulated.  This is the sanctification process and our return to love.  My prayer for us today is a willingness to embrace the sanctification process by letting go of our stories and returning to love.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God provides. God ensures.  God gives.  We go through life making things happen and working for what we have.  We begin to believe that we can do it all on our own.  We are self-starters.  We pick ourselves up and go at it again.  We push through.  We engage.  But where does this energy to live and thrive come from? Is it really just our doing?  Perhaps we are driven by a spirit within us so deep in our true self that we do not make the distinction between what is God-driven and what is self-driven.  If we propel ourselves by only our own strength we will burn out.  We will reach a point at which we are no longer able to retain the nourishment needed to keep growing in love.  God is that nourishment. God is the design of our hearts that keeps hoping against hope.  Love is the life-sustaining nourishment that breathes in us when we do not think we can get back up, make anything happen, or think we have lost hope.  My prayer for us today is the courage to turn to God to ask for the nourishment we need in the moment to sustain our life of hope.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is present everywhere and every time even in the in-between times.  When we experience those moments where it seems like nothing is happening we tend to assume that our perception is correct.  We are looking only at the physical reality.  But given that there is more than just what is physically present that could not possibly be true.  God is aware of and operates in the spiritual realm as well as the physical.  In order to be in touch with what is happening in those gap moments we need to let go of needing to see things happening.  Trusting that God is fully present in those non-happening moments calls us to be in the present moment.  Trusting God to be present in the gaps invites us to focus on the process not the end result.  In the process we have an opportunity to grow, to fine tune what is important to our hearts, and to just be.  My prayer for us today is an awareness of gaps in our lives as invitations from God to be in the process of life.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God of Eternal Enlightenment delights in our recognition of his role in our lives.  When we stop and affirm for ourselves that All That Is has bestowed upon us we can bask in the light of love.  When we bask in the light of love we are living our full lives.  Our potential becomes limitless because it is connected too All That Is.  The simple act of acknowledgment is our ticket to peace and freedom.  First we acknowledge where we are mentally and physically in the moment.  Then we ask God for the courage to find something to be grateful for in the moment we are in. It isn’t always easy to stop and ask to notice what we can be thankful for but the practice of doing so builds on itself.  After a while of practicing this we begin to see things from the perspective of gratitude in all areas of our lives. My prayer for us today is an openness to learning what me might be grateful for in any given situation we encounter.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is enthusiastic. God is energetic.  God is alive.  We are invited to share in the aliveness of our creator in a way that reminds what life is all about.  Even in our breath exists the morale of life.  When we stop and notice what happens to our bodies and our minds when we take a breath we get a sense of the wake up to life we are receiving.  The morale that all of our cells experience at the receiving of fresh oxygen is something we don’t notice.  Just because we don’t notice it doesn’t mean it is not happening. There is so much about being alive that we thrive from and yet have no idea is occurring.  God can open our eyes to it if we wish.  We can adjust our focus to those things that increase our morale for life by noticing the little signs of enthusiasm that are going on within and around us.  It gives us renewed hope and energy to be present to all of life that is occurring within and around us.  My prayer for us today is a curiosity for the morale of life that is happening all the time within us and around us.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is rhythmic.  God is intentional.  We have the opportunity to flow like the rivers do with the love in our hearts.  It is accessible to us at any time.  We have forgotten how to tap into this flowing power so much that we are surprised to find it there.  God placed within us access to the great love from which we were created so that with each breath we could be reunited with God in and through us. I have found that when I feel disconnected (angry, frustrated, irritated, or impatient) I find it difficult to turn myself back to a space of love by my will or thinking alone.  The best thing I can do is touch my heart and take a few deep breaths.  With the pause, somehow it reconnects the flow of love into my heart and then my mind.  Love in my mind then becomes actions of tolerance, consideration, patience, and laughing at myself for being so irritated.  My prayer for us today is a willingness to pause to get the love flowing again when we get disconnected.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

Right here.  Right now. All is okay.  You are reading this, so your eyes are okay.  You are comprehending the words you are reading so your brain is okay.  You are breathing and thus know you are alive so you are okay.  Perhaps it sounds simplistic but if we apply the understanding of whether or not we are okay in the moment, we can better assess our lives.  God is right here, right now. God is okay right now.  Chances are that all is okay in the next moment but we are not there yet so we don’t have to think about it.  Any moment when we are breathing we are okay.  We are loved.  We have spirit.  We can step forward.  We are full of possibilities when we acknowledge the truth of being okay.  There is nothing to fix and nothing to recover from.  Being okay is about being in the present.  The eternal is with us most fully in the present because it is where the eternal meets the physical.  When I find myself spinning or jerked back into the past by an emotion I will stop and look at my hands, place one on my heart, and take a deep breath. With this physical gesture I am reminded that I am breathing in the present moment and I am okay. My prayer for us today is the courage to bring ourself back to our okayness through our breath whenever we find ourselves astray.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is intricate.  God is close.  God desires to be as close to us as possible.  The energy of God is placed deep within us and His design is written in every cell in our being.  God has left the mark of love in all that we are.  This is why we are not fulfilled unless we live out who we are.  We lack peace when we go against the very design for which we were made.  The closeness of God’s being means that at every breath we can choose to live the expression of our design or not.  We always have the choice.  When I am not being the love that created me there is a disconnection from who I truly am at my core.  I sense this discord and either cop to it or find ways of numbing it.  Many years I opted to numb out.  That is, until I could no longer sustain the habit.   It takes a lot of food and sugar to numb out..  Not to mention the pain that comes from walking around in a 300+ pound body.  Eventually the discomfort of carrying all that weight plus being checked out was just as painful as the discord I felt in my spirit and I had to find another way.  Thankfully God led me to a way of living that allowed me to get up and out of the addiction I was living. The 12 steps called upon me to let go of my destructive ways of hurting myself and get to know me in the quietness of my heart.  It calls for responsibility and courage to take action despite what I feel or think.  These are the ways that guide my life today.  Each day I am willing to see into me (intimacy) and seek God is a day for which I am grateful.  God continually invites me to see me as He sees me.  My prayer for us today is a willingness to be with ourselves and see into  true self++ with God’s help.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is with us at all times and in all circumstances.  God does not wait for a good result before approving of us.  God approved of us when we were created.  With great diligence God holds a space of love for us that cannot be filled by anything other than love.  Typically we wait for proof.  The fact that we are still breathing is our proof of approval.  It is not easy to stay the course when all signs point to it not working out.  We are encouraged by God to look at the process and not the end result.  It is who we are being with ourselves during the processes of life that is important.  The process is what is happening right here right now.  This moment is all we truly have and if we can be diligent in this moment then we are successful.  My prayer for us today is a willingness to be diligent with ourselves in the moment we are in instead of waiting to approve ourselves when the results come in.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God does not discriminate.  God created all and therefore is within all.  Our work is to find the God in every being that we encounter. This is our daily mission.  If we cannot recognize ourselves in others then we are missing out on the joy of living.  The moment we connect with others in a genuine knowing there is a sense of peace.  We have destroyed the illusion that we are separate and have stepped that much closer to the wholeness of our heart and being.  It is easy for me to see everyone as different and separate just by virtue of us being in different bodies. However, we are more than our bodies. We are all included in the only body that counts, the body of love. My prayer for us today is an openness to seeing the similarities and God in every one we encounter.  Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen