dailydatewithgod

The gold of who we are is encoded in our hearts.  The love that we come from is throughout our entire being.  We cannot escape the revelation of our true selves.  At some point it seeps out.  When we allow it to, it flows from us. When we get out-of-the-way (accept our luck) and let our spirit shine, it lights up the whole world.  This is as designed.  We are beings of light and love. It may not seem like this because we have temporarily taken up an identity which is grounded in only the physical experience and walk around showing or rather hiding that to the world.  We are so much more that the titles and accomplishments we carry around on top of our hearts.  The beauty of who we are lies in the places we call weakness and vulnerability.  The light that we have to shine comes through the exposure of our pure desire to love and be connected to God and to one another. The luck of our life’s story comes from letting go of our stories of strength in the physical sense and embracing of the seeming weaknesses that allow us to open up to receive and transmit love.  Our ego would have us believe that it is best to hide the luck of our lives.  Our spirit knows that when we see the weakness it becomes the portal to open up to God, to others and to reveal that golden light within.  It is the pot of gold at the end of our rainbow.  For me this means not condemning myself for my weaknesses but asking God to help me seem them as the rainbow line to love.  My prayer for us today is that we open up to accepting one of our weaknesses as the luck of our lives.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The permanence we seeks stands and looks us right in the eyes of our soul.  We need not seek outside ourselves for the sense of safety and security that our heart longs for.  We simply need to remember that by connecting to God within our hearts, we are completely safe.  We are taken care of and in this moment of our breath all is well.  It sounds too simplistic.  Most spiritual concepts are simplistic.  Not easy but simple.  It calls upon us to let go of that which we have known in our physical minds to create a sense of safety and okayness and call upon God in our hearts to be our safety. It requires letting nature take its course of things coming and going.  All passes through time in the proper order and with complete ease.  Unless we block it or stand in its way, it (insert person, place, or thing) will flow. One of my favorite phrases is, “This too shall pass.”  It is helpful in times of strife and discomfort.  In times of joy and ease it is a reminder to fully breathe in and enjoy the experience.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to letting one thing pass that we want to hold on to and just notice how it feels to let it flow.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is right here, right now.  That is the power of the now.  When we are in the moment, we are in the one space and time where the physical meets the eternal.  When we bring ourselves to the present moment we are united with God.  In one spirit, one heart, and one mind we have an opportunity to be fully present. God does not spend time thinking about what happened previously.  God is all about what we are going to do now.  God does not bring up what didn’t work in the past.  God consistently sees us as how we are in this moment. Life lived in partnership with God, therefore is about letting go. Letting go of the “shoulds”, letting go of our old ideas about things, letting go of what we did in the past.  Yes, we can learn from the past by looking at it with clear eyes, but God doesn’t want us to stay there. Our mind that relies only upon the physical understanding of the world grasps at the past because it is what is known. God is beyond our understanding and therefore unknown.  The ego mind does not know what to do with the unknown and out of fear wants to keep us from what it cannot grasp.  To be with God means to be in unknown.  If we connect with our spirits we will sense the song of our hearts that rejoice when we are right here, right now. Despite our mind’s warning that it is unsafe because it is unknown, when we are fully present with God there is nothing to fear.  Right now, in this moment I am okay.  Right now in this moment, you are okay.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to being in as many right nows that we can and breathe in the experience of God.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

If we were to spend time in a garden I doubt we would overhear a conversation of a tomato comparing itself to a turnip or a sunflower comparing itself to a rose.  It simply doesn’t happen (literally or otherwise). Something in nature inherently knows that it is not about being anything other than itself.  The sunflower’s greatest role is to be as strong, healthy and vibrant as it can be.  To utilize the soil that it is grounded in, absorb the light from the sun and open itself to experience all things. It knows inherently that it brings beauty and joy simply by being.  It is the same for us.  It is not about comparing ourselves to someone else.  God did not create us as a reaction to what else was already created. God simply loves and we became.  Our greatest truth is to be the best we can be in love.  We also recognize that our best may be different from moment to moment. This is where our grounding comes in.  God show me how to be my best self in this moment, in this situation.  God show me what love looks like coming from me (not him or her or some expected ideal) right here, right now.  My prayer for us today is that we look to God to be rooted in how we are the best expression of love in the moment we are in.  After all, why else are we in the moment we are in?  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

Right now in this moment there is ultimate beauty to behold.  God has been up all night almost holding his breath in anticipation (one moment at a time) at what might and then you took a breath. In that moment God rejoiced.  You said yes!  You opened your eyes and you began to move forward with your day.  God rejoices when we respond to the life we have been given one day at a time, one moment at a time.  God finds wonder and awe in us, his creation.  God is ready to give us the gifts of the day. It is our part to receive them.  Sometimes we run with the story that we don’t deserve them. Sometimes we get stuck in the story that there are no gifts for us because they do not show up in the packaging that we expect.  But what if we were to let go of our expectations and just be open to the idea that this day is full of gifts from God.  My prayer for us today is that we decide whether or not today will be a day to receive the gifts of God and whatever form they show up and see how our day’s focus shifts.  Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen

Within each one of us is the capacity to love far beyond what we conceive of love to be or do.  Within all of us we can shift our experience of life simply by a commitment to know more fully that capacity within us.  We are used to thinking of most things outside of ourselves. Our perception of what is outside of ourselves is a direct result of the lens through which we are seeing our world.  This is why when we are having a “bad” day things often seem to go from bad to worse.  This is why when we are thinking and focusing on the things in our lives that work and flow, we see more and more of that.  What we focus on expands.  Whatever lens we choose to see out of colors every element of our existence.  The power of the pause and the choice to direct our thinking and thus our feeling is within each one of us.  Life happens for us, not to us.  We are not victims of circumstance.  God did not design us to simply prod along hoping for a better outer experience.  God designed us to embark on a journey of discovery back to the essence of our hearts.  This journey can seem arduous and troublesome at times but it does not need to be taken alone. God is more than willing to walk with us and guide us if we ask.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to ask God to guide our outer experience by showing us how to change our inner lens.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is always present. God is always with us. We just sometimes forget and think that we are all alone in this. All alone in whatever it is that we are dealing with. The reality is that we are never alone. Whenever I start thinking I am alone and have to figure it all out, all I have to do for a reality check is look around me. If I am alone how come I am surrounded by billions of people on this planet? Billions of people who were created from the same love that I am. Billions of people who are here because they are an expression of love to be shared with the world. It is easy to think we experience this in our own because we once had an experience that created that reality for us. However, at some point we must choose to either live in the present or continue to operate from the past. I have to turn to God and say please show me how to live right now-grasping the present instead of replaying a scene that happened a long time ago in my head over and over again. My prayer for us today is to grasp on to the present and let go of something that is no longer happening today. Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen

Are you willing to grasp on to the right here, right now for today? Share in the comments.