dailydatewithgod

God is the energy that seeps in and through everything.  Love is the untouchable touchable force of the universe.  When we act in cooperation with God we find ourselves drawn more and more into a realm in which love is the only thing that is real.  It takes away our blinders of barriers.  It steals our breath.  It calls to us from deep within our souls to be the message of the creation from which we were made.  One cannot help but be touched by love at some point in our lives.  Hopefully more than once but love is so powerful a force that once is enough.  That is why all gestures of love matter.  That is why all moments of disconnection from love seem so painful.  But remembering that we cannot be untouched by love once we have been created means the idea that we are disconnected is not the truth.  Today I had an experience of feeling my heart close off to another human being whom I encountered on my path but it was not because of who she was, it was because my head was dominating my way of being.   I was at work, I had a task to accomplish, and it was important that I appear to have it together. In my mind, it was only when that was done could I extend warmth, kindness and welcome into my class. I clearly needed God’s help to step out of that mind cycle and open my heart again. So at a break I stopped, breathed, touched my heart and asked God to come between me and what was closing off my heart.  We have expectations of things when they are complete and well put together.  What about the process?  What about the relationships that happen along the way?  Is life only meant to be recognized in the completion and the perfection?  Love does not wait for any such moment.  Love strikes right here, right now.  Love touches us when we least expect it.  This is what causes our heart to skip a beat, for a smile to rise from our lips, and our spirit to sing.  My prayer for us today is that we allow ourselves to step away from the doing and spent time in being so that we live the surprise of love’s touch in a way that we have not yet imagined.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is before all.  God is after all.  God is under all.  God is over all.  Wherever we turn the presence of love is right there.  Wherever we hide the gift of life is hiding with us.  We think if we run far enough or hide deep enough we will disappear.  We believe that we need to run and hide.  We came from the Great Creator who designed us from love to live in light.  When we work so hard to do the opposite we wear ourselves out.  Any time we attempt to go against our inherent nature we are living in struggle and disease.  We have all had things happen to us at some point in our lives that were difficult and painful.  This is part of the human experience.  The difficult and painful situation however do not define us.  They cannot.  We existed before they did and we exist long after those experiences have passed.  As an incest survivor I spent a lot of my life certain that there was something very wrong with me.  For many years I had no idea why I simply wanted to hide and felt I needed to protect myself from others, especially men.  I thought if anyone knew how much darkness existed inside of me they would stay far away and actually that would be better because I didn’t want to get hurt again.  I almost killed myself believing this false story.  I got disconnected on a deep level of belief from remembering that before any of that happened I was breathed into life by the most powerful force of love.  Not once has God confirmed my illusions of myself.  God always comes to me from a space of love and admiration of the light within me.  God always wants to utilize circumstances to get me to recognize that light and love within me.  In fact, even the most heinous of circumstances has become the catalyst through which I can be reunited with my true self as God sees me.  My mind has been opened and I now see that the thing I was running from about myself, the situation that I coated with years of denial and sugar and weight is the very thing in opening to the light that has set me free.  It sounds preposterous unless you have experienced the miracle of grace that comes from ultimately understanding that nothing outside of yourself can change who you are by your Creator.  My prayer for us today is that we take the time to connect inside to the light that we see as darkness and free ourselves to remember who we truly are in the eyes of our Creator.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is all-encompassing.  God is benevolent. God is one.  We are invited to be in relationship with the One who surpasses all understanding.  We are given multiple opportunities throughout the day to be embraced by the Great Spirit.  Sometimes we recognize these embraces as grand gestures but more often they occur as small seemingly insignificant moments.  As we go through our day we may notice something that makes us smile.  We may think of someone for whom we care.  We are caught off guard by another’s gesture of kindness.  We feel the wind on our skin.  We remember a time when we felt in the flow of life.  We get an insight into an interaction with another that allows us to let go of some negative thinking.  These are all small ways that we experience the embracing of God.  God is so in love with his creation that he cannot help but express love in as many ways as possible all throughout the day.  We often miss it because we were waiting for the grand demonstration and proof.  We get sidetracked by thinking we know how God will show up in any given situation. God revels in being able to express the embrace of love in unexpected ways so we can be surprised and touched directly in our hearts.  My prayer for us today is that we let go of how we think God will embrace us today and be open to the unexpected touch of love in our hearts.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God’s voice is the most powerful. God’s presence is the most undeniable.  God’s choice is the most deliberate.  When we engage in a relationship with God we have access to the most powerful voice, the most undeniable presences, and the most deliberate choices. We find ourselves living and breathing in an existence that seems beyond what we see and touch.  Some call it the 4th dimension.  Some call it spiritual experience.  It matter little what we call it.  It is about living it.  It is hard to imagine that God would take such an interest in each of us. But why would God not take such an interest?  Why would God create and then not minister to His own creations?  I can remember as a child being given a description of God as this father in the sky.  It just didn’t stick for me because my experience when I reached out to God was that of the man of Jesus.  A presence more accessible than some being in the sky. Somehow both have remained with me and I have opened my horizons to many more impressions of God.  I cannot know which one is right and which one is wrong.  I don’t actually care to know.  The only thing that matters to me is it be a Being that I turn to, rely upon, and trust is with me no matter what happens.  All other matters of form and content an unimportant.  I have found in my relationship with God the most undeniable presence that ministers to me in my heart.  My prayer for us today is that we find an understanding of God that we believe ministers to us.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is the freedom that surpasses all freedoms.  God is the blueprint through which we can understand true liberation.  We live in a world that seems to be fighting for freedom.  The true freedom we seek is that of our spirit. When we are entrenched in thinking that who we are is solely what we see ourselves as in the physical sense we are bound by space and time.  We are not free to experience the life of the spirit because we are not connected to it. On my dates with God I am constantly calling upon my spirit to unite with my Creator and remember that I am more than just who I am in body and title.  This brings me the liberation I seek in my heart. If I am not just my body and my physical identity then there are limitless possibilities as to what comes next.  There is an illusion of certainty in the physical being that causes us to think that if we just stay with on;y it we will be okay.  The reality of nothing hurting us however lies in the trust of that which is more than physical.  Our liberation comes when we realize that who we truly are is in and of God and nothing that happens outside of us can change that certainty.  My prayer for us today is that we find some time to connect with our spirit of liberation in the Spirit and free ourselves of our physical limitations.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is obvious.  God is empowering.  God is right now.  When we experience ourselves with full energy and excited about life we are in the flow.  We are connected to our Source of Life.  It is life-giving and life enhancing when we recognize that the only true source we need is that of the Great Spirit.  Infinite Intelligence makes sure that what we need is always present.  However, we often confuse our wants with our needs.  We get caught up in the world’s definitions of what is needed for a successful or a happy life.  We buy into the idea that it is about things outside of ourselves–our jobs, our relationships, our possessions, and our titles. There is nothing wrong with those things but in and of themselves, they will not bring the fulfillment of our hearts.  Our lives are enhanced when we recognize that going within and connecting with the One who manifests all those things is where our greatest sense of purpose and fulfillment exists.  It eludes us because it is so simple.  It doesn’t require us to study for years at the best colleges, go on a million dates, set aside money for years, or work our way up a ladder.  The elevation of our lives exists in consistently setting aside some quiet time to pause, reflect, and breathe.  God awaits our invitation to join in these still moments where our hearts can be spoken to unhindered by the clamor of the outside world.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to finding a way to enhance our lives in a heart sustaining fashion.  Make it a great one!  Peace~ Colleen

God is First Place.  God is the Prize.  God is First Place. When we participate in the game of our lives we are given the opportunity to win.  This means showing up to play.  It means registering to take place in the event.  It means preparing through training.  We put on the shoes, we do a bunch of practice, and we work up our stamina.  We get up after we have fallen.  We root for the other members of the team.  We go the distance and we don’t give up on ourselves.  When we play to win we are fully in.  When we play to win we place commitment behind our intention.  Winning is about being all in.  Life is how you play the game.  If you play to win then you have spent your life being in it and when it ends you end it as a winner.  God is all about being there with you every step of the way.  We experience the fullness of love when we commit ourselves completely to the being in it to win.  It is not about an external acknowledgment or getting the prize because the prize is the full realization of our hearts.  Each step in that direction, each phase of our training, brings us closer and closer to the Ultimate Reality of Love.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to commit to a mindset of winning by being in our life.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is God no matter what.  God is love regardless of the illusion of lack of love. God is unchanged by circumstance.  We are God incarnate and thus we are also unchanged by experiences.  We fell deeply and with tremendous energy and fall for the illusion that what we feel causes us to change.  But nothing can undo God.  No person or thing of this earth can rewrite what the Creator has designed.  Being constantly in the presence of God helps us to remember our unchanged nature of love.  When we spend time regularly with God, we are reminded frequently that who we are is not dependent upon anything or anyone except God.  The origin of our true self lies in the hands of our Creator alone.  My prayer for us today is that we be with the unchanging reality of who we are by spending some time with our Creator.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is the Great Problem Solver.  God is the Great Teacher. Our life is a series of lessons in love so that we might embrace more fully the love that we are.  In order to operate effectively we are called to notice the problems or challenges that we face without buying into them. Our lives are about the process of experiencing and growing in love.  We glance at the situations that appear to stray us from love and use them as a signal of where we got off course.  Our experiences do not define us, but they can shape us if we wish to grow from them. It is not about getting it right or having the answer.  It is about acknowledging a lack of love and the presence of fear which is the opposite of love.  We then move from glancing at the problem to focusing on God.  Concentrating on God will shift us from fear to love. My prayer for us today is that we be willing to glance at our problems and focus on God.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is always present and in the present.  God’s reality is here and now.  God’s source of wholeness resides fully in this moment.  And then this moment.  We are bound by space and time.  We have limits in our minds and therefore our reality meets God when we are present in the moment.  Our minds like to oppose the present by spending time in the past and projecting into the future. If we are not present in mind and body, we miss out on the fulfillment of God’s presence.  I know when I experience anxiety, doubt, or overwhelm the quickest way for me to step out of it is become aware of the moment I am in.  Sometimes all I have to do is look down at my hands and remind myself that I am here in this moment as a grown adult woman in this body.  When I do that I have a quicker connection to God who is right here, right now.  The gift comes for me in not making myself wrong for the opposition that occurs, but to simply be aware of it.  When I notice it, I just ask God’s help to bring me back to where God is.  Then I remember, I am right here, right now, all is well.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to recognize and accept that there are experiences that oppose the present moment and ask for God’s help to step out of them.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen