dailydatewithgod

The Great Spirit has designed a flow of life.  It is emulated throughout nature and is present in our bodies.  When our minds cannot grasp what being in the flow means we can look to the sources of nature to remind ourselves.  The first world culture has made a lot of progress by mastering the cycles of nature.  In many ways we can defy the flow of nature.  However, the fact that we are of this very nature means that we can only do it for so long before we begin to breakdown.  Just like when we defy the love that we are we either break down or die out.  We cannot live very long going against our own grain.  Many of the “negative” emotions that we experience are simply us holding on to that which we cannot control, an expectation, a specific result.  We have let go of trusting that God is in charge, that love will ultimately win and that we are okay.  When I do remember and trust in the flow of life I need not hold on to anything.  Ceasing according to my mind is giving up.  But letting go is part of the flow of nature.  We don’t fight it when we let go of the next breath, the previous step we took on our walk or making room for the next idea that pops into our head.  So why would we fight the trusting of love still being in charge.  To ceasing being fixed on a specific outcome allows me to be surprised and delighted by life, be in the moment, and enjoy.  God wants this kind of experience for us.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to ceasing where we are feeling stuck and fixed on a certain idea.  Make it great one! Peace~Colleen

The One Who Is All exerts a profound strength and power over all that is created.  The Grand Designer has given each of us this same ability through the choices that we are given to make.  Everything we are and do is a decision.  All our thoughts, all our feelings, all our ways of being, are choices.  When we remember that we are not victims of circumstance, we remember that we have decision to make.  We may not like the current choices we are faced with, but even whether or not we like them is a choice.  It was Victor Frankl who very poignantly said, “The last of human freedoms -the ability to choose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances.”  If a man who survived Auschwitz can adapt that philosophy then I have no reason not to.  When we approach life as the beautiful gift of choice, we find ourselves victorious in living even if we make the “wrong” decisions.  God does not stand around and judge us for our choices.  God celebrates when we decide to take the next breath and keep going.  God marvels at what we can create when we own the reality of the love that we are.  We stand in judgment of ourselves and others.  We look for right versus wrong.  We fear death.  God is not a concept of man.  God is beyond a concept of man’s thinking but the heart of God is placed firmly within our reach.  We decide in this moment whether or not to reach for the hand of God.  We can choose to ask for help when we get stuck in our programming and ask to remember that we are more than just here to survive.  My prayer for us today is when we see ourselves as victims of our circumstances we be willing to reach for and recognize our decision to reach for God’s hand.  Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen

The Vast Designer of the universe calls upon us with each breath to carry out the work that was begun with our birth.  It may not seem like it but when we were given life and breath there was a shift in the world that created a ripple.  Every breath we take, every move we make, continues the rippling.  This wave of our lives is what impacts the world around us.  It is what influences our vision of the world both within ourselves and outside of ourselves.  Sometimes we lose touch with what our ripple effect is because we think it does not have an impact. We are all energy.  Energy travels in waves.  It has resonance and moves and flows.  Pause for a minute and notice the wave of energy that you experience when you take a breath in and out. You sense the flow movement of energy. We experience it physically as air but it is so much more than that.  We have the capability to make a tremendous impact with our energy.  I need God’s help so that I don’t get stuck in the thinking that I don’t make a difference and that I am stuck.  It simply isn’t true but when I don’t see things happening on the physical level I presume that to mean nothing is happening.  God brings me back to the wave of my breath to recognize its tremendous gift.  It brings me to the moment I am actually in and allows me to courageously let go of whatever else my mind is going on about.  My prayer for us today is that we be for a moment with the tremendous nature of our very breath and embrace with God’s help the moment of movement that we are in.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God of Life endowed all of existence with a life that exceeds our mind’s understanding.  This life includes the opportunity and avenue for presence.  Each moment is a chance to show up.   A chance to let our light shine.  We animate the world when we show up. We become the gift of life that God has bestowed upon the earth when we align with God’s vision for ourselves. When we step out of the limitations of our mind and our ego.  It is hard sometimes for me to imagine that I am any kind of gift to the world when I show up as true self.  Many years of practicing the art of people pleasing (which is actually selfish because subconsciously I was doing it to validate my sense of worth) and doing the things I “should” do I thought wore out of me my connection to my intuition.  On my dates with God I am shown that nothing was worn out.  All that I have within me to be me is still there, I just needed to be reminded.  God has shown me the mirror through which to see myself.  It is as though God showed me how to see again with my heart.  I just had to be willing to release the muck I had encased over my heart and open up the chamber of defensiveness I had built up around my heart in the name of safety.  This is not easy, but it is simple.  It was lots of crying, lots of writing, lots of being open to new ideas, and mostly lots of trusting in this path of walking with God day by day.  With patience and compassion I have begun to live one moment at a time in the way of my heart.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to walking the path that allows us to live the animation of life that we are in God’s eyes.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The Knower of All has created such an intimate relationship with all energy.  All of creation has within it this knowing.  The eternal spark of God is still a part of everything that God has created.  The only reason we do not see it is because we are in a state of forgetfulness.  When we take time out to connect with God we begin to remember.  We remember the knowing of who we are and who we are being.  This is our intuition.  Our highest self is the knowing intimately the miracles that are reality.  The intuitive way of being is one with love.   In love miracles are the standard not the exception.  When we are asleep to our intuitive reality, the reality that is linked to God at the strongest level, miracles seem like bizarre shifting of reality not reality themselves.  Miracles of changing hearts and smiles that light up rooms are seen as inconsequential in a world of matter.  Who we are is not just a physical form.  Who we are is beyond form and beyond understanding when seen in the light of God.  To remain in the light we must believe in the light of love being present at all times in all places.  God doesn’t just exist in churches or mosques, forests or mountain peaks.  God exists, love exists in and through every thing that is energy.  For many years it was not safe to follow my intuitive bending. They didn’t match up with the reality of the physical world.  But I am no longer a child who relies on physical nature for sustenance.  I am a child of God who is connected to All That Is when I am ready to wake up and own it.  This path of remember has taken many false starts and silly slip ups but I am more grateful for the “mess-ups” than the staying asleep.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to awaken this intuitiveness within us and welcome God back home to our hearts.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The Great Spirit who breathes life and love into all that exists has bestowed all the gifts of love upon you and me.  The light that exists within you that has always been there and will always be there, dances when we remember who we are.  This dance is the dance of bravery.  Bravery is when we step outside our fear and take contrary action.  Love is the opposite of fear.  To love is to be brave.  It takes fortitude to keep moving when the fear of our mind wants to bog us down.  It requires valor to own the light of love that burns within our heart and soul.  God is our champion.  God is our cheerleader.  God is ready to take our hand and guide us on this path of bravery when we are ready.  Being ready does not mean having it all together.  Being ready means owning who we are in this moment because it is the truth of God, not because we have earned it.  We cannot do anything to earn something that we already have. And because God is infinitely generous, we cannot do anything to undue the bravery that lies within us in our light and love.  The beauty of this world that impacts my heart is when I see love prevail.  Not because it is some romantic Hollywood notion of love, but because it is so brave to step into love.  When I see others do it despite the circumstances seeming otherwise, it gives me courage to do the same. Bravery is contagious.  It is why we cheer for the hero and the heroine.  It is why we get up each morning and take a new breath.  It is the Spirit of God (LOVE) within our hearts and souls that whispers the reminders that we are more brave than we think we are.  When we pause in a moment of distress when we do not think we can be the love that we are and reach for God’s hand, we are the brave souls that we know ourselves to be.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to remembering the bravery that exists within all of us to choose love in this moment.  Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen

God of All That Is has called upon us to be the expression of All That Is.  The expression that we are is dependent upon us being authentic and present in the moment.  It is easy to take the path of following along in the herd, pretending as though we do not have a specific mission but it is not true.  God has tasked us with being ourselves.  God’s sanction is the only one we need.  By living in this acceptance of the truth of who we are we enable the power of love to carry on.  Love is not love unless it is given away.  Love is meant to be lived and shared.  God wanted to bring about love in a multitude of ways. With all of us living out this sanction of God we are bringing about God’s universe.  When I get caught up in my life being about getting the approval of other people I am losing sight of the main task of my existence which is to perpetuate love.  God, bring me back to what you are approving of for me in this moment.  God, help me to trust that your sanction is the only seal of existence that I need.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to believe that God’s approval of our growth in love is all that is needed to keep us breathing and being to the fullest. Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is a God of Gusto!  God is fiercely compassionate and focused on love because it is who God is. It is also who you are because you are an extension of God.  We can experience being a part of the vine of God as Jesus mentioned, when we are willing to let go of the idea that we need to grow our own roots. We think to stand out and be special we must be separate.  That is what our ego mind tells us.  Being special simply means living from our heart.  We are already a unique expression of All That Is. Getting to know ourselves and being at peace with all of us is the key to living with zest.  How can we be excited and passionate about something that is not of us?  We all know the difference between when we are being authentic and genuine versus when we are doing things  because we “should” be doing them or because we are going to get something.  Sometimes I have to acknowledge that my decisions are based on a reaction to someone or something and not my genuine loving nature.  But I would not even be in a place where I could know that I do have an authentic loving nature within me, unless I had allowed God in to remind me.  These dates are part of that remembering time.  It is as though the time is set aside specifically so that God can reveal to me the fierce love and fire that God has within my own heart.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to concede that the zest of God lives in our own hearts and if we get quiet enough we can hear the sizzle.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The Great Lover of all has made a decision!  This decision was made with clarity and power and breathed life into your being.  The decision was that you would be a path of love for the world.  Your significance lies in fulfilling this role. You do not need to explain yourself to anyone.  You do not need to justify your presence in the world.  The fact that you are present in the world and breathing means you have significance.  We look to the physical world to explain why we are here and that we are okay.  That makes us dependent upon the moods and feelings of others.  We are not dependent upon these outside forces to reveal to us our significance.  It lies in our own hearts.  On our dates God continually reminds me to focus on God. The specified time that we spend together each morning as I start my day is the most important because it sets my mind and my heart on the path of my significance.  Then I am able to be present to the hints throughout the day, the little “love notes” from God to remind me yet again of my significance.  I need these reminders and I ask God for them because I never want to lose sight of why I am really here and that I matter to the most important entity in the universe.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to set aside a few minutes as we start our day and allow our hearts to be reminded of our significance.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God of All Care has designed all that is with clear purpose and magnificence.  The creation of every element was done with the utmost in mind, in other words, fashioned to facilitate love.  We are designed with the same brilliance.  Our purpose is to be the messenger.  We are called to be the love from which we were designed.  Being the love means living, breathing, emanating, co-creating, facilitating, embodying all the facets and aspects of love that are possible.  The manifestations of love are arranged in such a fashion that allows us to be present for them as they are occurring both in and through us.  It is not something we do, it is something that we are.  In a world that values results and titles and go-getting and making things happen, it is hard to imagine that allowing the arrangement that already exists within us to be enough.  So we carry around this story that we are not enough. That is not God’s vision of us.  That is our version of us. God always sees infinite possibilities and pathways to love which is why anything and everything can ultimately lead us back to love.  We can never be separate from it, even when we feel separate from it.  The arrangement of love is built within us down to the ions that live in the molecules of the atoms of our every cell.  We are asked to surrender to the ideas the arrangements that our mind conjures up so that we can live and be in the reality of love that God knows us to be at all times. This is bliss, this is peace, this is enlightenment.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to let go of the arrangements that our mind is trying to conjure up to compensate for its story of not being enough and surrender to the possibility that God has already arranged the path for our return to the realization of love that we are.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen