dailydatewithgod

Great God of All That Is meets us in the in between spaces.  God calls to us and reaches out to us as me move from moment to moment.  With all the fast-moving, instant satisfaction momentum we don’t take much time to pause and reflect or even just take a new conscious breath.  It is hard for us to understand how God would show up in the pauses because we are taught to not value the in between.  We are taught that lack of motion is wasted or pointless.  We are taught that life is about results and thus measure our time and our energy from that perspective.  God shows us that all of life is important and it is the places when we stop, notice, and be with whatever that we see the gems of our lives.  My life is as full as anyone else’s and when I have moments when I am not doing something I often feel uncomfortable.  As though I am not being because I am not doing.  But just the opposite is true. I can only truly do when I am being.  My prayer for us today is that we embrace those pauses and in between moments to cherish being as God cherishes us no matter what we are doing. Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The One who is All began our lives with the order of love.  We are designed as an assortment of love in all forms.  We are the system of love.  We are the procedure of love.  No matter what form or shape we take love is at the core of who we all are.  We experience the order and flow of life when we are in our alignment of self.  There is a peace and an acceptance of life on life’s terms when we are resonating with our true order.  The focus on the form itself or the arrangement causes us to lose sight of the core of the creation and the creative process.  For me, when I get stuck in my stinking thinking that this (whatever this current circumstance happens to be at the moment) is not how it “should” be, I am disordered.  I have forgotten that the very fact of the existence of something means there is love there somewhere.  I am just blind to it because I am focused on the form in which it is presenting itself.  I turn to God and ask: How can there possibly be love here?  How is this part of the Great Creation?  Help me make sense of this because I cannot. It is my willingness to trust that God is never anything short of  love that enables me to be willing to ask the question.  Then I move on to the next indicated step and do my part as I wait for the response.  This is not easy, but it is always simple.  I get to continue to be who and what I know myself to be at my core, despite the circumstances.  I know deep down that the circumstances and experiences do not change me, only God can change me. I am certain that God will not remove love from me, so there is nothing to fear. This is the true sense of order that I crave in my very being, the certainty of God even when I don’t understand God.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to ask the question, be confused, and open to the answer while we continue to conduct ourselves in the order of which we were created no matter the circumstances.  Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen

Great Spirit longs to be close to us.  We were created from All That Is Love as light paths of that love.  We are called to be close to our creator so that we can remain in that love.  The world is full of callings in many directions.  We do our best to set out and follow a calling that we feel is in alignment with who we are or what is expected of us.  We find fulfillment in the path or not and set out on a different one.  Each day there is a renewal to our calling as human beings.  God calls to each of us in the quiet of our hearts at each moment, in each breath. How we respond to that call determines our sense of peace.  There is nothing good or bad about whatever human calling we embark upon or path we follow.  But for true fulfillment in our hearts we must listen to the inner calling of our spirit.  This is the calling that guides us on who we are being as we are present in our lives fulfilling our physical path.  This is the calling that shows us how to act and what to say in those in between moments where there are no guide books  from the corporate, education, or government world.  This calling is the one that is with us when our heads hit the pillow at the end of the night and greet us first thing in the morning when we open our eyes.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to whom God is calling us to be in this moment as many times as we are courageous enough to do.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The Great Spirit of Breath and Life lives in accordance with the truth of love.  Everything that comes from God is in alignment with the principles of love. We are part of this same creative process.  We exist and were designed from this same place of love.  When we act in accordance with its principles our lives have a peace and an ease that seems to surpass our mind’s understanding.  If we live just in our heads we will find ourselves trying to break down this love experience.  We cannot fit the mind of God inside our minds. It is a surrender to just be with the love that resides in us without having to figure it out.  Over and over our ego will try to assert itself by insisting that it needs to know how and why.  This is so it can justify its existence. Sometimes we just need to take the ego by the hand, like a child, and say, its okay I will be with you, I will not abandon you if you can’t figure this out.  There is no need to, just sit and be with me.  God whispers this same message to us in the quiet of our hearts. When we accept that, we can live in the peace of the accordance of truth.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to speaking to ourselves the way God speaks to us with love.  Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen

God is Good.  God is always Good.  God’s goodness is inherent.  God’s goodness is innate. If we are created in the image and likeness of God then our goodness is innate as well.  We do not need to prove our goodness.  We do not need to prove our goodness.  We do not need to show that we are worthy by being good.  It is something that flows naturally from our being. When we are connected to th truth of who we are then we are good by virtue of the fact that we are good.  We aren’t good because we need to prove ourselves worthy we are good because we were created by Goodness.  Our work is to stay connected to our true essence so that what is expressed from us that goodness.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to see ourselves as good at our core and let go of any story that does not support that truth. Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God of perfect design has created a world of learning.  God of infinite knowledge endowed all of creation with an innate understanding of love.  We cannot run or hide from the truth of who we are.  We cannot avoid the design that is built into our very being at all levels.  We may try to cover up the truth of who we are.  We may buy into a story that we created by our minds to rationalize the events that occurred outside of us.  None of that is true.  The only truth that holds any merit is the thinking of God.  In God’s eyes, we are and always will be the love from which we were created.  This truism guides our the movement of our cells, the breath in our lungs, and the energy of our hearts.  We may feel disconnected from it.  We may not believe it.  Just because we cannot imagine the truth of truth to be true, does not mean we know better than our creator.  It is so easy for me to forget my own truth because I have had lots of practice denying it.  As a child I was dependent upon the adults in my life to tell me what the truth was.  They did their best to share what they knew but ultimately it is not up to other people in our lives to tell us who we are.  It is time for us to grow up. It is our relationship with God that enables us to open up to the truism of our lives. God created us. Who better than God to remind us of who we are and always have been from the one who knew of us before we were even able to be known by ourselves or others?  My prayer for us today is that we be open to hearing the truth of who we are from the one who created us by turning down the volume of sound from those who are observing us.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The Spirit of the Universe is constantly inviting us to take part in the breadth and depth of life. Each time we have a choice to make we have the opportunity to work in cooperation with God’s design for the universe or against.  One brings us peace, the other disheartening.  It is within the realm of our spirit that we know the answer that feeds our true selves and that which famishes it. We get stuck when we cannot hear the voice of our spirit.  We fill our lives to such a degree that we leave little room for a pause or silent moment.  Living a spiritual path means making room for being.  Life cannot flow if it is bogged down and stuck. To cooperate with God’s reality we are invited to mirror the flow.  To allow for the in and the out, rejoice in the process, and trust that we are here to learn how to grow in love.  Every invitation to cooperation is an appeal to experience greater love for ourselves and those about us and thus God.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to choose the path of cooperation and demonstrate our willingness to learn more about love from our day’s circumstances.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

Glorious God of the Universe has spoken of your value and your worth by creating you. This is how God honors all of love and creation.  The very existence of the leaves on the trees and each hair on your head come from the love mind of God. Things are not arbitrarily present in the universe.  Every one and every thing is present in the world because it is deemed worthy by God.  The fact of its creation means it is worth something.  Who are we to then say that it or they are not worthy or not created out of love?  I get confused sometimes and I often don’t understand how or why things happen the way that they do. My mind searches and searches for an answer. Usually it comes up with something that symbolizes separation.  Love’s answer is alway union and connection.  The heart and mind of God draws us together, focuses on our similarities, and leaves no one behind.  In some strange way this is comforting because I know there are parts of myself that I would rather have nothing to do with, that I despise, and that make no sense to me.  If I come across other beings for whom I observe those same qualities and can recognize my connection with them from the union eyes of God, then perhaps I can see myself as whole too.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to see with the eyes of a united God who prevails with only love even on the parts of ourselves where we do not yet experience peace. Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen

God of All Understanding has a heart beyond our comprehension. We are granted access to that Heart of hearts anytime we choose provided we are ready.  The that Love that is God is mind-blowing and heart surrendering.  In order for us to be a vessel for that kind of love we have to empty ourselves of that which might block it.  God is constantly willing to share with us, but we are not always ready to receive.  We have ideas and beliefs that prevent this grand experience of love from entering our reality. Sometimes the best thing I can do is pray over and over: God, help me to see this differently.  Open the eyes of my heart with which to see this idea, person or situation.  I know that when it comes down to it, the longer I date God the more I want to draw closer and closer to God’s view of reality because it expands my heart with a readiness to love like nothing else.  This heartiness then becomes a longing that calls out from within and embraces me wholly.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to offer up to God any ideas that might be blocking us from a hearty reality of life. Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God of All Creation decided long ago that the love in and of itself could not be contained.  In the same way that a couple decides to share fully with each other and end up creating new life.  Love creates.  Love creates more avenues for love to be explored, learned, shared, and developed.  Destruction is outside the realm of love in the sense that we understand it.  We see the dying and the letting go as destruction.  Life sees it as part of the process. The flow of life means that things begin and things end.  It is all within the enshrinement of God’s perfect plan.  So, why is it when things in my life die or need to be let go of, I fight it?  I fight it when I lose sight of the fact that God is in charge of a plan that is much more than just me.  I am a part of a greater purpose.  My life is enshrined in the purpose of love.  As I grow in this love there are things that no longer serve me in continuing my growth.  God has the sight to see what those are and I am given opportunities to respond to the invitation to let them go.  God is there to hold my hand through it and to remind me that nothing that is changing affects me at my core.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to letting go of the things, people, way of thinking, or situations that keep us from growing more in love.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen