dailydatewithgod

The Universe is constantly growing and expanding.  We are an integral part of a whole system that is constantly growing and expanding. Change is the norm. Growth and learning is who we are and what we are called to be in our aliveness.  So much for getting things done. You ever notice that when one thing gets “done” there is something else that pops up that needs to get “done.” So much for figuring things out so we don’t have to think about them anymore.  Those ideas are based in fear of change.  But if growth and expansion is what we are designed for, we have nothing to fear.  Learning and growing implies a trial and error experience. A dance back and forth to recognize what works and what doesn’t work.  There is no “wrong” way to do things other than to stop the cycle of which we are a part. Good luck with that.  It is kind of like asking the sun to stop shinning its rays of light on which we depend for life.  God calls us with each breath to engage in this dance of learning and expanding. God does not expect perfection but engages us with love and sees us as ones who learn and expand in love.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to expanding our hearts to learn about love in a new way with this new day.  Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen

Within each one of us lies infinite possibilities.  Because we were designed by the maker of possibilities we become an extension of that reality. The reason we often don’t see that is because we have had experiences of limited possibilities.  Experiences in the physical world which does have limits and so we took that story on.  The difficulty in that however, is that it applied to our experience of that particular situation.  It is not a truth of the Universe.  Our minds have this survival quality that allows us to be able to function without a presence of mind.  It does this with our breathing, our walking, our driving.  Once something occurs physically for us our brain creates and imprint and a program and runs the program when that situation arises. This works well as it would be a long day if every time we needed to breathe we had to stop and tell our brain to breathe in and breathe out.  However, when it does this with an interaction in another situation which will not always be the same, it can create some difficulty.  Without even recognizing it we go to our old programming and unless we make an effort to consciously be present in the moment we are in, we get dragged to a moment from the past and act from there.  God calls us gently forth to be present with him in this moment. We are invited to experience it new and be present for the gifts that are to be garnered. God wants us right here, right now, because that is where God is made manifest.  To let go of the programming from a previous experience requires an intention and decision to be present to how it will occur right now.  My prayer for us today is that we have the courage to take God up on his offer to be present with him in this moment and receive the gifts that are being offered.  Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen

Life is the sacred gift of blessing embedded into each breath in this moment.  The Great Spirit has designed us for an experience of love and truth.  In the physical world it does not often appear that way because we have created obstacles that prevent us from tapping into the reality of who we are.  These layers of misinformation formed in good conscience by our ego serve us until the pain of the lack of their truth does not.  Then we find ourselves lost and uncomfortable in the pain that we thought we once found comfort in.  This awakens us to the present and causes us to question what we thought we knew. The experience of this is spiritual in nature because the truth of who we are is calling us to claim it and in order to do that we must let go of the stories our ego helped us to create because we are ready to step into our truth.  The truth of who God created us to be and is willing to walk the path with us in our rediscovery of that true self.  Who we are at our core is not afraid to do this, our ego is because it is threatening the very life that it has created.  I am grateful for the stories and the layers that my ego created that helped me survive.  I am not sure I would be here otherwise.  I have learned however that with God by my side I can gratefully let that go in exchange for an experience of who I am in the present, not me based on a past experience.  It can be scary but I only have to do it a step at a time.  Any moment when I find myself wanting to run back to what I think I know, God stands firm and strong with the vision of who I AM and reminds me that I cannot go back even if I wanted because I have already started to wake up.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to take God up on his offer to stand in the truth of our creation and let go of one old story or circumstance with thanks.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The world in which we inhabit screams of the intricacies and design of our God, the Great Creator.  The intimacies of the design of nature alone is enough to scream the walking definition of Infinite Intelligence.  This is also the energy from which are created and designed.  God has put as much thought into every cell that forms our body as in the structure of the Grand Canyon or the kernel of sand oozing around your toes at the beach.  In God’s eyes it is all crucial to the experience of this day.  We are here for a reason.  The good news is that despite our best efforts to squash the Infinite Reality that lives within us, it cannot be squashed.  Who we are at our core eventually seeps its way out and connects with others. When we stop fighting the reality of who we truly are we can be at peace with ourselves.  It is not that we are afraid of how dark and terrible we are, it is the childish attribute of not wanting to take on the responsibility of owning the power that God has called us to step into.  We fear we cannot handle being our truest selves because we think we need face it on our own.  As if aligning with God will somehow cause us to be disconnected from our source of power.  The greatest thing we can do is be the instrument of God for ourselves and each other because it is the truest expression of our life’s purpose.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing stop at some point today and ask, how can I be the instrument of your peace this day?  And just notice what happens as we go through the day. Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The limitless, timeless, shapeless, and vastness in which we are loved by our Creator is beyond our comprehensive.  Yet, it is the most basic in the essence of who we are as beings because it is who we are.  Once we begin to open the door to the possibility of allowing ourselves to experience this love our lives begin to change.  It is hard for our mind to conceive of this because it defies logic and understanding.  We all know it to be true in the deepest part of ourselves.  The key is to be willing to let go of all the things (ideas, concepts, beliefs) that we have built up around our heart.  While we may have created those things for safety or for dealing with the circumstances of our lives at the time they were not meant to be permanent.  Our ego latched on to them because it was much more understandable and something that could be grasped.  We could go our whole lives living in that shell and never breaking free but because God loves us, life has a way of waking us up.  These wake up calls which can sometimes seem earth shattering and devastating, end up being our gifts to freedom.  It is the breakdown that facilitates the breakthrough in which we can begin to recall who we are and by whom we are loved.  God spares no opportunity to invite us to return home to our hearts and truth of our spirits. I know that it has been in what seemed like some of the darkest times of my life when all I could do was call out to God.  Only in that space was I so open and willing to believe something other than the outer shell story I had created to survive. It is in those moments of willingness to reach beyond a desire to survive that I began to sing my heart’s song of living in the light of love for which I AM created.  It was not easy to let go, but it I only had to do it momentarily so that I could grasp the hand of my Creator.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to see the pain of letting go as only temporary and the hand of God as open and ready to envelop us as the love that we are.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

Being in close relationship and connection with God creates a sense of peace and purpose. The peace allows us to ride the waves of life in often a seemingly mad world.  The internal alignment that is created in that quiet time with our Creator sets up an equilibrium that is not tossed about when we are present to situations that could invite us into the chaos. There is a pause and a moment to breathe and make a choice. We may choose to engage by reacting to the situation or we can choose to disengage from the world’s definition of what is happening.  It is a space of a coolness that comes over us when we take a deep breath and remind ourselves to whom we are beholden.  My prayer for us today is when we find the world clamoring at us for a reaction, we have the courage to utilize our breath and bring in the coolness of knowing whatever happens God has got us on this one.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God says yes to us every day.  God says yes to us when we are given the breath of a new moment.  It may not be the pomp and circumstance we think we want but the subtleties of God far outweigh the drama that our ego’s cling to.  We think in our minds that a parade should be thrown for us when we act in a way that is good when we measure our lives by the world’s standard. In God’s world doing the good and right thing is simply an extension of our being our true selves.  It flows naturally through us.  When we respond yes back to God, we are saying yes to a life lived with purpose, with a sense of wellness, and a peace that goes beyond understanding.  We are saying yes to an experience that is not limited to the physical existence in which our bodies are present.  We are saying yes to a life that unfolds moment to moment and a willingness to be present, to feel, and be touched by the unknown gifts that await us.  Saying yes to God and essentially to our true selves might mean saying no to others. Our ego’s rebuff this and is not interested because it values more what other people think of us than the truth of who we are. More times that I can count in my life, I have said yes to someone or something under the guise that it is what was expected or because I didn’t want to hurt their feelings.  Which when I look carefully, I realize the craziness of that statement. How can I actually hurt someone’s feelings?  Do feelings get hurt?  And given that I don’t actually know what someone else is feeling or thinking in the first place, I see the falseness of my own thinking. The reality is that I do not want to run the risk of not meeting someone else’s approval of me.  That someone becomes more important than God. One of the benefits of a strengthened daily walk with God is that when I am leaning in that direction and I take time to pause and check in with myself and God, I can feel a tug on my heart.  God calls me to say yes to Him and love and if that manifests in a No to someone or something in the world, then I have to trust that all will be well even if it doesn’t look that way.  This is a yes to faith.  My prayer for us today is that we have the courage to say yes back to the Great Creator who says yes to us and the fulfillment of our best selves with each new breath we are granted. Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

There is so much beauty and wonder to absorb in this experience we call life.  God has gifted us with such a beautiful portal through which to experience life.  This planet, each other, our bodies and our minds. Children know this because they are just starting out.  They delight each time they learn something new.  You can see it in their eyes.  It is as though their hearts and their spirits jump with excitement the moment they assimilate something new.  If they are old enough to express it verbally they will often tell you over and over what they have learned.  Somewhere along the way we lose that.  We take on a stance of thinking we are supposed to know things we don’t know simply because there are things we do know.  This robs us of the excitement and joy that comes from learning new things each moment. Things about our world, the people around us, our bodies, and our minds.  When I go into a situation thinking I know how it is going to turn out or how so and so is going to respond, I essentially cut myself off from being present to it.  I can then miss the gift of the interaction and lose the learning that might come from the process.  I think this is part of what Jesus meant when he talked about being like little children.  When I am teachable, I am humble, and I am open.  My prayer for us today is that we have the courage to let go of what we think we know and be willing to walk into one experience today open to what we can learn.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is Almighty, Everlasting, Omnipotent, All Love, and beyond our understanding.  We get asense of the majesty and power of God when we sense it in our own lives.  It is not separate from what we are capable of experiencing but we often need guidance on how to use the power we are given.  Power can used as an ego trip or something to manipulate others.  Or we can choose to own our power as human beings and work in partnership with God to direct it for the greater good of all.  We like to shrink and play like we are victims and sometimes that seems more comfortable.  The reason it is comfortable is because it is based on an experience we may have had at a young age when we were a victim.  It is familiar and therefore comfortable.  But we are not children anymore.  This process of maturing and taking responsibility for our lives allows us to grow in partnership with God and live life to the fullest.  Shedding our ego’s story ofvictimhood can be challenging, believe me, I know.  But it is the most rewarding thing to wake up and claim the power that comes from a relationship with God that is rooted in love and responsibility.  Even when it is not pretty, it is beautiful. My prayer for us today is that we are willing to let go of one story of lack of power and step into the power God has given us to take responsibility (ability to respond) for our lives.  Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen