dailydatewithgod

The Great Creator is Infinite in Wisdom and designed every part of you with that wisdom.  We are granted the gift of taking care of the design which Our Creator so carefully put together.  Given that our minds tend to focus on what is going wrong so that we can protect ourselves from danger it is easy to miss the simple gifts that we have in our human experience.  When we are not focused on what is wrong, we compare ourselves to others.  Our ego is wedded to the idea of separateness and will use any language or tactics to achieve its goal.  I consistently need to lean on God to help reshape my frame of mind to that of care and gratitude.  Yesterday I was reminded of all that I have to be grateful in the midst of facing some old demons emotionally.  Knowing that my intention is to stay focused on being of care towards myself and thus others, I adjusted the message that goes off on my phone each day.  Now it says: Hey Colleen ~ I still got you, remember the gratitude!  My prayer for us today is that we find a way to stay in the gratitude for the things in our lives that we have been tasked with taking care of.  Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen

God is the Original One. God is our origin.  We came to be out of the Original Love. We live and breathe and have our being in Original Love.  Nothing that we experience on the physical level can transform our energy to such a state that we are devoid of that Original Love.  We get caught up in the day-to-day human physical experience and forget that our original state is that of complete and total love.  Our origin cannot be erased.  This is why love always wins.  It is the life force, the origin of existence of all that is.  We are just a bunch of forgetful people.  Our awakening is about remembering who we truly are.  It is about bringing our originality to our consciousness.  We get it in bits and pieces in the quiet places and moments. When we experience it on a physical level it awakens the remembering on a spiritual level but sometimes we associate it with the physical element outside of ourselves and think it is about that.  Our soul rejoices in every remembrance and invites us to seek out more opportunities to awaken.  My prayer for us today is that when we have a moment of remembering we breathe in the energetic form of originality that is moving in and through us.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

There is a natural movement of life that occurs. When we are a part of it we describe it as being in the flow.  There is an ease and a naturalness that comes with being in the flow.  We are able to let go. We trust that we are taken care of.  We find ourselves able to not be as affected by others.  Our understanding of ourselves is based on who we are at our core, not the circumstances we are experiencing.  It is as though there is an overarching purpose of well-being that exists and we need not fret about how it is all going to work out.  This is how God desires for us to live each moment of each day.  Life is not meant to be spent getting caught up in the worries and concerns of everything that happens.  God encourages us to step into the momentum of the flow.  We can begin by noticing the moments when we are a part of it and when we step out of it.  I step out when I start thinking that all needs to rely upon me.  I am alone and I have to take care of it or fix it, whatever it is.  God gives me the free will to do things without Him, but invites me to notice that when I do things in partnership with him there is much less fretting and more flow.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to riding the momentum of the flow of life by letting go and trusting that LOVE will win in the end no matter what it looks like is happening now.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

Within each one of us there is a light that is so bright that we would be blinded if we were to look into it directly. It is part of the design given to us by Our Creator so that it shines through us. We see it in the eyes or feel it emanating from the warmth of the heart. It is a brightness that binds us to the Universe of Light and Love. Sometimes through experiences and agreements our light grow dim. Various shades get placed on top of our light and we question its existence. We see it in others but don’t imagine that any such thing exists within us. God reminds us constantly through the light present in the world that we have the same within us. There was a time when I thought there was no light within me. I thought I had nothing to give and far from feeling bright and energetic I felt as though my life was being sucked out of me. Life sucked! But the beauty of all of us having this light is that we are attracted to it and drawn to it. We are able to see it often in others when they cannot see it in themselves. I had prayed to God many a time to be freed from the sense of hopelessness to no avail, yet something in me kept moving forward.  It was then that a new friend came along my path and saw in me a light that I had forgotten how to see.  She needed my help with something.  I realized that she must see something in me that I could not.  She helped me believe my light still existed. I will forever be grateful to her. My prayer for us today is that when we see the light in others or ourselves that we acknowledge it and brighten the world. Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen

Are you willing to look for and acknowledge the brightness of this world that comes from our light and the light of others? Share in the comments.

Each day is an opportunity to experience the world anew!  Each moment of each breath is a chance to take in the “marrow of life” as Thoreau stated.  God calls us to this full experience by greeting us with this Grand Overture of our day in a breath. The Conductor begins to move his hands and guides us in playing our part in the orchestra for the day.  We are invited to participate in this beautiful symphony of life with one another.  The difference between us and an orchestra is we don’t have the sheet music to follow.  Or do we?  Perhaps the music is written on our hearts.  Have you ever noticed the players in the orchestra who close their eyes while they are playing?  As a kid, I wondered how they could read the music with their eyes closed.  Then I realized they were playing from their heart.  They closed their eyes so they could tune in and be one with their instrument.  We are called to do the same.  God invites us as the conductor to go within our hearts and connect to our music, to listen in the quiet to the heart-strings that tug from our soul and yearn to be played out in our lives. We are the instruments of peace that St. Francis asked to be.  We are the instruments of God’s message of love. My prayer for us today is that we be open to playing our part as only we can in the orchestra of life so that God can conduct the most beautiful overture ever heard to date.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The Great Creator and Grand Master of All That Is is within you at all times.  Your design was done all around your core essence which is of your Creator.  Within each heart, mind, and soul of every living energetic being is the mind of God.  God, therefore, is in everything and through everything which is why one cannot go anywhere God is not.  This is how even in the places and experiences we fear to tread, God is already there waiting with love.  We run from those things that we perceive as bad or wrong about ourselves and others.  But these things are not what is really happening. They are only our perception and fear that our ego has designed.  God is the only real thing there is.  Love is the only real thing there is.  When we choose to avoid or run from that which we fear we are simply buying into the idea that God is somehow not there.  God is everywhere and in every thing.  Love is everywhere and in every thing.  When we begin to recognize that we cannot run from our true essence and can embrace all of life and live fully.  It is hard for me to admit when I am wrong, when I have done something in error because in that moment I am not recognizing it as an opportunity to learn.  I see only the judgment of my mind which I have made god and forgotten the true God present in the moment. It is those moments of asking: God, where are you?  I do not see you here.  It is then that I am asking to be opened up to how God is present in a way that I never imagined possible.  Humility means being teachable.  If I am truly humble then I recognize that my perception of something being outside of God is incorrect.  If I am truly humble then everything is a lesson of love.  My prayer for us today is that we recognize the spaces and times of our day where we think God is not and stop and ask God if that is true.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God who is ALL LOVE created us by being.  We were designed from the desire to spread love in as many ways possible. The Great Creator endowed everything that lives (everything that has energy) with a love that surpasses all understanding.  We are the expression of love.  We are the testament of love. We are the inhabitants of love. We are the messenger of love.  We are love.  Every fiber of our being has love built-in.  This is why we are touched by it when we experience it.  It breaks us open and reunites us with our inheritance when we let go of our resistance to it.  We have just forgotten who we really are.  It is easy to forget because we live in this physical world and in physical bodies that demand our attention all the time.  We think our reliance can only be on things we can see with our eyes and touch with our hands.  We believe we are our names, our roles, our achievements, and our possessions.  It is not wrong to own those things, but we sell ourselves short of the ultimate endowment when we think that is all there is.  Why would a Grand Spirit who sprouts flowers on cactus in the dark of night or jump starts our hearts when we see an act of compassion limit us to only what we can physically experience? When I get caught up in being only my physical expression of myself and trapped in limitation, I ask God: Show me how there is more here than what I am seeing and feeling.  I know that You are greater than this physical moment that I feel trapped in, take me to where you are. My prayer for us today is that we be open to the opportunity to claim the endowment of God when we find ourselves confined by our physical reality. Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God responds to us with love because that is the mind of God.  The power that comes with always being able to see the love extends beyond our understanding.  We can be willing to receive that love of which we do not comprehend.  When we make the choice to be receptive to the power of love sometimes we find ourselves stumbling along the way. This leads us to think that we are headed in the wrong direction or should not be receiving the love.  Instead, we can ask God to show us what barriers we are putting up to love and ask how they might be removed.  Each time I have taken steps towards being receptive to love the barriers show up.  The “parts” of myself that are wedded to the idea that love cannot be in and through all things, shows up.  Sometimes I get ill, other times I back away from people, and usually all of that is accompanied by loud stories in my head about what I am doing wrong.  My ego knows how to condemn me.  Thankfully God has shown me that these barriers are illusions.  It is the natural occurrence of waking up to my true self. The false self must be shed for me to be free, but it has to present itself first so that I can acknowledge it and say goodbye.  I find myself asking God to remind me that all is just moving through.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to the reception of love and just notice the barriers that come up when we do.  Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen

The waves are rushing to the shore, the planets are traveling at light speed, the birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, the morning dew is evaporating, there is fresh oxygen filling your lungs with your first breath of the day.  At any given moment in God’s world all kinds of exciting things are happening.  Depending on what we choose to focus on we can be as elated as God is that life is moving forward.  God has no doubt that Love wins every time so there is little reason to be disheartened.  When we are looking at all that is not going as we would like or we fill our future with expectations and conditions, we are no longer receptive to the signs of life’s elation that tingle our spirits awake.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to let go of what we expect and be open to the many opportunities to be elated as God is with us at every moment.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God creates an awareness in us that calls us to an aliveness that we find ourselves drawn to once we have been touched by it.  It brings forth a call to respond to God from an inner sanctuary that is beyond time and space. Our ability to respond is always there and it a choice we make.  I know I spent a lot of years vaguely aware that there was deep down this sense of peace and freedom with which I am connected.  The difficulty was that I kept looking for it “out there”. I thought it came from looking a certain way or behaving in an expected manner.  I thought I would connect with it once I achieved a specific status or obtained the job, the husband and the family.  I tried so hard to create it by trying so hard never to disappoint anyone.  I got a taste of it here and there but nothing every stuck.  Part of my spirit gave up, but part of it hung in there.  When I had driven myself to the point of destruction and almost hopelessness, the call came yet again.(God is persistent 😉 )   This time I chose to respond.  I responded from a place within me that I didn’t know existed anymore.  I had stopped listening on some level.  Yes, I had a relationship with God but how could I connect with God about things that I had disconnected myself from?  How could I respond when I had handed over that ability to others? I kept looking to others and situations for my sense of self, sense of security, sense of peace.  That meant when situations or people showed up that way, I was okay.  When they didn’t I was out of luck.  In building this daily relationship with God I have seen that when I reconnect with that place in my soul and in my heart that is always vibrating and echoing the love of God (even when I don’t “feel” it), I find the peace I got sometimes from the outside world.  If I take my ability to respond and choose to do so I am no longer at the mercy of what is happening outside me.  My prayer for us today is that we heed that call deep within to step up and respond to our heart and soul’s longing to be reconnected with ourselves and with God.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen