dailydatewithgod

God is consistent, persistent, and never-ending!  God’s love therefore is consistent, persistent, and never-ending!  God pursues us like a madman who lives to know that his beloved is aware of how they are cherished on all sides, from all ends, and in all ways.  Think about it.  We are given a new breath every moment, the sun rises, the flowers bloom, and we experience life through a myriad of senses.  God is always ready to remind us we are loved in a way that only God can remind us.  If we are constantly looking to experience God’s love in a specific way we might be missing out on what is right in front of us.  I am always asking God: Help me to see as you see.  Help me to see where the love is.  Help me to be aware of your presence.  If I am unaware of God’s reiteration of love in the present moment it is not because it does not exist, it is because there is something in me that is not in tune with it.  It is not that I have done something wrong.  I have just slipped into a place of forgetting that which is the most powerful force ever.  My prayer for us today is that we allow God to reiterate how much we are love and are loved in an unexpected way.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The Great Creator set out to create from LOVE.  The Great Creator designed all that is with this LOVE.  The Great Creator designed you out of LOVE.  When we look behind at the makings of our lives and the lessons we are presented with they are all opportunities to return to a remembrance of LOVE.  Somewhere along the line in our existence we lost touch with or fell asleep to that which is our true nature.  The human experience seems to be one of a path of remembrance.  One where we get to let go of the false stories that we have taken on as a result of circumstances and return to the real story which is God and nothing else.  At the end of the day our stories may be fascinating and dramatic but they pale in comparison to the power and majesty of LOVE which is the real story.  I can easily forget that I am love, created by and for love when I am irritated or feel alone or triggered by a circumstance.  It is then that I turn to God and humbly ask to help with remembering who I really am and why I am here.  Then the soft quiet gentle voice in ways I never thought possible or imagined shows up to remind me.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to notice that when we are stressed or feel disconnected from love we are just forgetting who we are.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The Universe is all set.  The universe is set up to allow for our goodness to shine.  Everything that happens in our lives is meant to lead us to learning how to love and how to be love.  Even the difficult things that happen are designed so that we can embrace the purest part of ourselves which is love. When we experience challenges there is nothing wrong.  We are coming face to face with thinking or a way of being that is not in alignment with our highest good. Therefore because our soul and our heart knows we are greater than who we are being or thinking at the moment there is distress.  This lack of alignment causes a dis-ease.  If we choose to work in cooperation with the opportunity to return to who we are in our core then we will once again experience the peace that is our natural state of being.  God is here to help us with this every step of the way and actually coordinates elements so that we can return home to our hearts.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to look for the elements of coordination in the universe that are part of the design to return us to the peace of our hearts.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

Where God is there is no fight and there is no struggle.  There is simply a surrender to the flow of all of life. God calls upon us to stay close to Him, to draw near to the goodness that we are and experience being a part of this flow.  There is a peace and an ease that comes with being in the flow of love and light.  It is the core of who we are.  There is no fight or struggle to get there because it is recognition of our true selves. There is nowhere to get.  The peace that God promises lives within us and always has.  Once we are willing to let go of all the other things that we have taken on from our stories of who we are, the easier it is to be aligned with God and our true selves.  The fight comes when we want to hold on to the story.  We have been telling ourselves the same story for such a long time that we don’t even recognize that it is not true until it begins to fall apart.  The falling apart feels like the breakdown of who we are but it is actually the opening to discover ourselves at our highest, truest and purest experience.  My prayer for us today is that we embrace the breakdowns of our story as an opportunity to see ourselves as God sees us and not fear.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

In the Universe of the Grand Designer there exists an assurance of all things LOVE.  In the mind of God the only thing that exists is love.  Everything else is an illusion. God calls upon us to assert the same understanding of reality.  This comes from drawing closer to God and closer to our true essence.  It is a call to let go of anything that is not the truth of who we are.  We take on these elements to deal with particular circumstances in our lives.  Then the incident ends and we are left with a decision to either incorporate it or let it go.  In a world where our ego looks for identification it is easy to see why we become attached to our stories.  The easiest way for me to step out of confusion about who I truly am is to simply ask God:  Show me what you want me to learn about love in this situation and remind me that I am more than what I am experiencing.  At the end of the day I simply want to be clear and know with courage that I am a child of God and I am safe. To be able to assert that for myself with the courage of my own heart and voice is the greatest gift of freedom that there is.  To live a life where I no longer believe that I am a victim of circumstance is priceless.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to how God is asserting for us the truth of who we are through our experience instead of believing the lie of who we are from the experience.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is the Ignition of Love!  God is the light of the fire that lives within your soul.  God is the spark of light that wakes you up to remember who you truly are.  Yes, God speaks to us from this small quiet voice that often gets over crowded by the noise in our heads and of our world. At the same time, God is the splattering of colors seen across the sky at sunset.  God is the majesty of the waves that come crashing onto the shore, the lighting that strikes in the sky, and the power of your heart that wants to leap out of your chest when you see your beloved.  God cannot be defined by our thinking.  As Meister Eckhart teaches, once we think we know God we do not know God.  It is not for us to define God but to be open to how God will reveal The Great I AM in the moment.  My constant prayer is: Awaken me to how you are present in this moment.  Help me to see what I am not able to see with my eyes.  Allow my spirit to be in alignment with Your presence right here, right now. It is easy for us to confine our experience of God by our limited human mind but to be ignited by God as God chooses to be revealed is to live in the moment and be lit up from the inside.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to how God might choose to be present in the moment in ways that we never imagined.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God equipped us with a whole myriad of energetic experiences known as emotions. They occur as a result of an attachment to a particular thought that we focus on.  This bundle of energy then creates an emotion–energy in motion that we experience as happiness, sadness, fear, anger, joy, etc.  We experience them in mind and body.  Somewhere along the way we made the decision that some feelings were good and others were bad.  It may have something to do with the fact that the energy level created by certain emotions is more vibrant than others.  I literally feel freer when I am feeling joy versus sadness.  I feel less bogged down when I am angry versus depressed.  However, the moment that I make the decision that one emotion is okay and the other is not I lose my freedom to express it and release it.  Sadness is one of those that is sometimes difficult to allow.  Somehow I got the message that sadness or anger was not okay unless of course it was justified.  But sadness and anger are a part of grief which is a process of letting go which is part of life.  Therefore to deny sadness or any energy in motion is to deny part of life.  Sadness or any emotion is not good or bad or right or wrong, it is simply an indication of a presence of energy and something to take a look at.  Whenever I am experiencing any of the “negative” emotions that I have adapted judgment towards I ask God for the courage to feel and release them.  This is the only way that I know not to stifle or stuff the energy.  What I have discovered over the years is that when I allow myself the opportunity to feel and ultimately release the undesirable emotions, there is more room for the desirable ones.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to allowing whatever energy in motion we are experiencing to be present and flow through us.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

When the Master of Intelligence created us we were each given a series of gifts and characteristics that would best enable us to be the messengers of love that we are called to be.  We are designed to bring the message of God (LOVE) to the world in a unique fashion.  It is not up to us to worry or fret about how we do that, only be willing to do it.  Some of us are called in grand and majestic demonstrations but all of us are called in the simple yet very important day-to-day.  When I look back on my walk with God, it is the tender moments where I felt God showed up in flavorful ways that I was most touched.  It was in the scent of the flower, the rain drop on my nose, the smile from a stranger, the cool breeze on a hot day, the forgiveness of a friend, or one left of the item on the shelf, etc.  The list is endless.  We bring that same gift of simple signs of love to the world. We never know when our smile, forgiveness, word of kindness, letting someone go ahead of us in line, pausing from saying something negative or showing up creates a miracle of an experience for someone else.  It does not matter that we know how we do it, only that we be willing to be the message.  So little of it is in what we say, it is who we are being.  Our being our true selves allows us to spice up life for ourselves and those around us because we each bring our own individual flavor to the situation.  God calls us to be present in our lives because we are the needed ingredient.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to add some spice to life by being who we are.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

Are you willing to add some flavor to life by being who you are with all your spice today?  Share in the comments.

God is clear.  God is transparent.  God is certain.  When we find ourselves mulling about and lost we can turn to Our Creator for the clarity and certainty that we seek.  We think it will come from the world.  We think we can depend upon a particular role, idea, or institution for our certainty.  It is only when those roles, ideas, or institutions break down and are not able to support us that we begin to look elsewhere.  If we are lucky, we begin to look to something greater than ourselves.  We take the opportunity to get quiet and find out what the principles of life are that exist within us. We discover that God which is our true certainty is not hiding in the shadows as we may have thought.  God is clearly and strongly rooted in the deepest part of ourselves.  It is then that the breakdown which seems insurmountable becomes the breakthrough.  It has been hard to let go of ideas, roles, and institutions over the years that I relied upon growing up to provide the safety and certainty that I craved.  But when they proved themselves to be less than the principles for which they stood I realized I could no longer align myself with them and be my best self.  My reliance upon the principle of God is the only thing that allows me to live and breathe and be authentic.  It is this process of growing up and creating a new relationship with myself and then with those roles, ideas, and institutions that I find peace.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to let go of those things outside of ourselves that we look to for certainty and pause and look within to find the true principle of our lives which is God.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

We live in a world designed out of love for the purpose of creating experiences of drawing closer and closer to that same love that is in the core of who we are.  The Great Creator wanted to share the LOVE that is.  The Spirit of Life loves so much that it could not help but extend itself through creation.  When we tap into that connection of Spirit then we are aligned with that same infinite power of love.  We live in a universe that is designed to get our souls and our spirits to remember who we truly are.  Therefore we have experiences that wake us up from the illusion of our physical reality as being all that there is.  These wake-up calls may seem abrupt or even jarring, kind of like and alarm clock, but they are our greatest gift.  When I was in the throes of my addiction and self-destruction I was so entrenched in the ideas of my physical ego.  It was in that space that I experienced hopelessness and a darkness that I would not wish on anyone.  And yet, at the same time I had a spiritual practice and a relationship with God.  That relationship was on my terms.  I decided what I thought God could and could not handle about my life. I was convinced that my experiences which had been a lack of love defined who I was, not the truth of the Great Spirit. Even today after many years of being in the understanding and reliance of God in all things, there are still areas that I forget to include God in.  It is always an opportunity for growth.  Today, thankfully, I experience an enchanted relationship with God because I gave up trying to be someone whom God approved.  In the midst of my wake-up call I realized that God had already approved of me which is why I was alive.  Each breath I was given was a sign that I was meant to be here.  When I became willing to let go that I knew how God worked and recognized that God did not think as I did about me or anything, I found the magic.  God delights in all that God created.  God looks forward to us waking up to the enchanted world in which we remember that the LOVE from which we were created is all that is.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to let go of any ideas that we have of God and be enchanted by the power of LOVE.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen