dailydatewithgod

The Great Knowledge that God encompasses pervades our reality.  Faith is about trusting that the God who Is All, Knows All.  In our journey when we are ready to step into that knowledge we only need call upon our God.  When we keep our eyes focused on the One who designed us from the inside out, we can live knowing that what has been revealed to us is exactly what we need to be aware of in the moment.  There is nothing in this moment for which you are not ready.  There is no information you are lacking, something hiding from you, an operation of a denial that keeps you from doing what you are called to do in this moment.  It is hard for me as someone who has always sought out knowledge and understanding and places great value on education and an open mind to concede that perhaps I am not aware of something in this moment because I do not need to be.  I have been known to plead and prod God to understand, only to be met with silence.  I have harped, pouted, and thrown my hands up in the air exasperated as to why I have not been able to find peace with a situation and wanted God to reveal to me what I was missing.  (God knows I can be quite the drama queen).  But God is not moved to be less that the keeper of Knowledge who knows exactly the time and space in which to reveal to me the answers that I crave.  God calls upon me to trust in His Knowing, lean on His Heart when mine is troubled, and be still in this moment. So I quiet my tantrums, take a deep breath, reach for God’s Hand, and place it on my heart.  Breathing in the peace of knowledge of the presence of God, I am reminded yet again that it is the Only knowledge that needs to be revealed to me in this moment.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to trusting that what has been revealed to us in this moment is all we need for this moment.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God of All Graciousness is present right now in this moment.  In this moment God of All Wonder resides with us all.  The experiences we have in this universe of learning are based on the premise that we can give things a try to gather information.  Each step we take, each decision we make provides feedback when we notice what happens.  We get stuck when we decide that what happens as a result of our actions means something about us. When we look to the results of our actions and judge them as good or bad, we narrowly begin to define ourselves by our circumstances.  No outside circumstance can ever define who we are.  God defines who we are and did so when we were created out of great love.  The experiment of life is about taking chances so that we might learn more about how things work and get feedback on whether what we are doing brings us closer to God or further away.  We lose sight of the purpose of learning when every result becomes our self-definition.  In a universe of learning, humility is key.  When we are teachable, we are saying that we are willing to try things out and gather evidence.  This evidence feedback helps clarify the path towards love that we are on in this life.  I easily forget and become fearful to act because I am waiting for the result to define me.  I then have to turn to God and ask:  Remind me this is about learning and growing in love. No matter what happens, place within my heart the remembrance that You will never see me as anything less or greater than the love you placed in my heart at my conception. My prayer for us today is that we remember that we live in a universe of learning and are free to show up and experiment with what brings us closer or further to the love that we are within.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The Impeccable Designer implemented love in physical form. So intricate is the great love from which we were created we could not unwind and get to the bottom of it if we had a million lifetimes.  Love does not make sense.  Love cannot be explained or understood fully.  We get glimpses of understanding and sense some of it like we can conceive of a drop in the ocean.  It is the Authority of God that commanded the physical universe to present itself. This commandment came from an overflow of love. Various scriptures in easter and western traditions speak of this unfathomable God that is responsible for all.  Sometimes our ego traps us into thinking it is our job to understand it all.  Perhaps our job is just to live from it.  Perhaps our role is to enjoy it.  Perhaps our place is to be in awe of it.  When we recognize the authority of God as that which created us from a space of love we are not less than we are simply the cherished ones.  I cannot begin to comprehend the love that God has for me or the authority from which that love began.  I have gotten glimpses of it and it seems almost magical. My mind is so full of judgments and exceptions and misconceptions stemming from relating to my physical reality that I have to step away from it in order to taste the love from which I was created.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to acknowledging the authority of love from which we were designed and spend as much time as we can feeling cherished.  Make it a great one !  Peace~Colleen

God of All is God of All Time.  God of All is God of All Hearts.  God of All is God of All Minds.  God of All is God of All Energies.  To begin to connect with the Great Spirit of All we must be willing to see how God is in all.  This means letting go of the ego’s notion that we are separate.  The world we live in defines most things by how they are different.  In the United States we live in a very individualistic society.  Individuality is neither good nor bad it is only harmful when it is equated with separateness.  If we see ourselves as separate from one another then it is not a far jump to see ourselves as separate from God.  If we adopt a mindset of separateness it is the lens through which we see all things.  God created us as individual expressions of God. We each bring a unique God element into the world simply by our being.  These unique factors and gifts do not separate us from God or from each other.  The fact that the driving force behind our individuality or uniqueness speaks of the profound nature of our connection.  When we notice our oneness, we can begin to genuinely reflect and give genuflection to each other because we recognize who we are in God’s eyes.  My prayer for us today is that we carry in our minds the spirit of genuflection towards God by our willingness to recognize God in one another.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The Great Spirit is in all places and all spaces.  When our eyes are opened to the awareness of God we do not have to go very far in our seeking.  It is the seeking path that ignites the spirit of all life within us to keep moving forward. We are drawn from our hearts to connect with this power greater than ourselves because deep down we know therein lies our satisfaction and peace.  God invites us to go inward to connect with this seeking .  We find  we do not have to seek at all, it is with us in all places and all spaces.  We become frustrated and exasperated because we constantly seek outside ourselves for an affirmation of the truth of who we are.  No title, no material object, no relationship, no status, no guru, and no religion can satisfy our inner knowing of connectedness to the One Who Is All.  We find may find temporary peace with those outside things but only the Eternal One is eternal.  There are many times over the years, when I want to give up and throw in the towel. I felt disconnected from myself and  from God. It is in those times that God is present, inviting me to see God in a completely different way.  I know that my heart always seeks God.  When I am willing to let go of whatever constructs are in my mind about how I expect or have previously experienced God, I am free to be open to new possibilities.  God delights in our seeking because it is the splendorous experience to surprise one’s beloved over and over again making love ever fresh and ever new.  My prayer for us today is that in the little moments of this day, when we think we no longer have it in us to keep seeking, be willing to take a breath and trust that our hearts we never cease to connect with the Eternal One.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God swaddles his creations with a love that is beyond understanding.  We were formed from the start from a love that wraps in and through us on all levels.  We can step back into that knowing any time we wish.  We simply need to let go of anything we think or believe that stands in contradiction to it.  Simple but  not easy. Our heads try valiantly to understand love.  But the mind that was created cannot understand the mechanism that created it..  We get glimpses and insights in our minds of what love is, but to fully understand it calls us to step away from our minds. Love is something that is beyond space and time.  Love has no limits.  If we are to be in a knowing of love we need to transcend the solely human experience of which our mind is entrenched and be wrapped up in the knowing of God.  It is frightening when we have lived our whole lives based on the belief that we “should” be able to understand everything.  The mystery can be scary especially since the mind interprets the unknown as typically not  good.  This is where faith comes in.  A belief in love is only as strong as the courage to step outside of everything we think we know and just be with God.  On my dates with God I have learned to just be.  Sometimes I feel a connection to God, sometimes I don’t.  Either way I show up each day in the hopes of being wrapped up in a love that goes beyond what my chatty brain can comprehend.  There God meets me and accepts me where I am.  God reminds me throughout the day when things fall into place that I am in the flow of life and God is in everything and with everyone.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to take a few quiet moments to still the mind long enough to sense the wrapping of God’s love.  Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen

God is all-encompassing!  There is no place or time where God is not.  All the variations that exist in the world are present because God saw fit to create them.  All the options in life are there because God does not prohibit us from the possibilities.  God wants us to create from the truth of our being.  God knows that what one of us creates is going to be different from the other but all are accepted.  We each have a unique role to play.  We each have unique creations to design to show the presence of love in a different form.  The range of love in God’s realm has no limits.  The possibilities of love in world are only limited by our thinking.  When I look at my life and the times when I felt most disconnected from love and from God ,it was when I was expecting love and or God to show up in a certain way.  I had limited my range of understanding and acceptance of who or what love is. God never wavered during those times. God continued to stand with me and knew that when I had limited the range so much that I was suffocating myself, I would call out to him.  Each day on our date, God invites me to expand my range of vision to see love in the forms that lay outside my current mind’s thinking.  It is God’s way of encouraging me to see love from the eyes of my heart and less from the eyes in my head.  When I am willing to do this, the range of love that is present far exceeds anything I could have imagined and I experience peace.  My prayer for us today is when we find ourselves feeling restricted and not seeing love that we ask God to help us expand our range.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The Wise One had endowed us with various capabilities.  Our way of expressing gratitude is to use them.  Sometimes we falsely think that if we acknowledge and utilize our gifts we are being egotistical.  Who are we to be fabulous?  Who are we to shine?  Who are we not to?  How can I presume that God gave me a certain talent or inclination and the world cannot handle it?  God is greater than the world because God designed the world.  I somehow don’t think that my playing my part will upset the divine continuum.  On the contrary, me not doing my part might upset it. We have a mission to be the love from which we are created.  Love comes in many  diverse forms.  God does not limit love or an understanding of love the way that we do.  This is how we know that God is a power greater than ourselves.  The agility of God is such that there is no limit to love or its fullest expression.  Why do you think there are so many of us and we keep coming?  Love has not yet reached its fullest expression.  We need to do our part.  Our part is playing  the role that lives and moves us from our heart, not some role assigned to us by our conditioning or what we think others expectations are.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to adopt the agility of God when it comes to seeing our gifts and our talents.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The Great Spirit designed all of life so that we might enjoy every morsel.  All of God’s creation are endowed with love in their design.  If we are willing to let go of our mind’s finite definition of love and what is worthy of love then we have the opportunity to experience the abundance of love that is around us and within us.  Being able to discern is a useful skill.  We have decisions to be made and paths to take.  Deciphering what is the correct course for us in the moment is what we are here to do.  Ultimately there is only one question: Will this decision lead me further on the path of love or will it take me away from it?  Will this draw me closer to God whom designed the love that resides within me or cause me to want to separate myself from myself and others?  Will this expand my heart or will it close my heart?  All the same question, just different formats.  One thing that I have learned on my dates with God is that God never ceases to see the expansiveness of my heart and the capability of loving fully.  My prayer is that I may more readily remember that about myself so that I can choose my life from it.  When I cannot, I simply reach for the hand of God, asking to whisper in my ear to jog the memory of when I knew nothing else. Sometimes I can picture the face of God nestled in the nape of my neck as the whispering occurs and it makes me smile because my heart is joyful at the remembering.  My prayer for us today as we make our decisions big and small that we have the fortitude to look at what decisions we are truly making and reach for the hand when needed.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The Divine Generator of all existence is always Love and will be always love.  We can take that to the bank.  The ultimate guarantee in life is that no matter what happens.  God cannot cease being God.  God is not changed by external circumstances.  God is Lord of All.  The Great Transcendent.  When we are called upon in the quiet of our hearts to be in communion with The Great One we are being invited to step into an experience of love. No more, no less.  There is nothing more than love and therefore there is also nothing less than love.  We forget this because we inhabit an experience that is limited by space and time. God’s guarantee of love is not limited by space and time.  When God I and I have our dates, in the quiet of the morning, I am invited to remember and connect to the deepest part of myself that existed long before I took on human form.  Then I can remember to take that with me as I walk through my day into and experience of limitation.  As long as I remember love I am more likely to live it and practice it.  The guarantee that God provides us is that if we forget, all we have to do is call upon the name of God and we will be restored to remembrance.  My prayer for us today is that when we find ourselves believing only in the limitation of this world, that we call out to God: Help me remember.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen