dailydatewithgod

When we open our eyes and take our first breath of the day we are saying yes to the gift of life.  Yes to the possibilities of God’s wonders to perform throughout the day. Yes to the viability of hope. Yes to the belief that Love wins even when it is the underdog.  If ever during the course of our day we forget any of these things, we need only to stop and take another breath and connect with Spirit.  We are not human beings who have spiritual experiences we are spiritual beings having a human experience.  This is why when we are aligned with God and our truest selves time and space seem to not exist.  We refer to those experiences as being high or being in the zone.  Many of us try to recreate that on strictly physical level.  As one who has suffered a physical addiction I know the dark side of where that can take one at an extreme.  I believe that our spirit so craves to be in union with God and experience the prosperity of the heavens that we will go to any lengths to get it.  Augustine in his confessions said, “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”   We think this restlessness will be consoled by something in the world when we forget that we are spiritual beings having a human experience. So we seek out the event, the possession, the person, the title, etc. to connect. It may work for a while but ultimately it will fall short because only God can fill that hole in our hearts.  Only our alignment with God allows us to be whole.  My prayer for us today is that we embrace the prosperity granted to us with our breath as many times throughout the day as we want to be awakened to it and feel that sense of wholeness.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

There is so much that is an existence right in this moment to remind us that we are loved and cared for.  God not only creates us but invites us to be loved and taken care of by Him.  Sometimes we experience this through other people, sometimes we experience it through trials, and when we have the courage to just breathe in the moment, we can experience it in our own hearts.  These blessings exist at all times, they are not dependent upon outside circumstances because God is not dependent upon outside circumstances. When we open the eyes of our heart and spirit to see the gifts that are inherent in everything and every situation our ability to love grows.  As love grows we have less armor around us and can feel more vulnerable.  If we have experienced darkness in times of vulnerability in the past we can be reluctant to open ourselves up again.  But given that God will not cease being until we again return to the state of the truest love from which we were created we will continually be given chances to open up.  It takes courage to recognize the fear that comes up and be willing to move forward and be open despite the fear.  In the past, I have run when the fear (which is all in my mind) has been too great.  It seemed like the safest option.  I am not sure if all these years of dating have worn me down, but today I am willing to be in that space of vulnerability just a little past comfortable.  I have come to trust that God will show up in full force with the love that my spirit is seeking to reclaim.  It started in little ways and little by little grows with time.  God has never let me down.  It is only when I hold an expectation that God will show up in a specific way that I feel let down.  But that is simply because I have narrowed God’s options.  What was I thinking?  LOL!  My experiences of God grow and change as I do and while God is constant, God is not limited.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to the possibility that God will show up with blessings in ways beyond that which we can conceive and thus begin to see everything as a blessing for all can lead us to a process of greater love, no matter the content. Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The Spirit of God lives within You!  The Light of the World is present in your heart.  We only do not believe it to be so because we have placed layers of other things on top of our hearts and spirits.  But just because we do not remember it does not make it any less true.  This is why the spiritual path is one of letting go. We are called upon to let go of anything that keeps us from our connection to God and to our truest selves.  It is easy to buy into the world’s definition of who we are or who we think we are supposed to be, but our Spirit’s calling is grander and more profound than that.  It transcends our mind’s possibilities.  So in my date time with God I ask that I be reminded of how God sees me and how God sees the world.  I want to be aligned with that which is truest of all of us.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to seek the unseen of who we are and all those we encounter so that we may see the boldness of our beings.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

Our Great Creator designed All That Is in such a way that gives us hope of things to come.  There exists a constant renewal of everything that lives.  Something dies and something new is born.  An event ends, another one begins.  The day comes to a close and night starts.  The night ends and the day begins.  Around every ending corner is a new beginning just about to burst open.  It sets the stage for hope that at every down turn there is an up turn. It provides the confidence of understanding that with every breakdown is the opportunity for a breakthrough.  This anticipation lives within our hearts and our spirits.  It is the part that whispers for us to keep going just when we think we should give up.  It is the element within us that our angels latch on to and support us.  It is the piece of our being that others light up when they witness.  Hope is the ingredient of our being that inspires others to hope.  Being in this space of anticipation that God is exactly who God claims to be allows us to claim the joy of living in a life of love.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to seeing the experience of hope in an area of our lives that seem to lack it the most.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

In a world that is full of life and expressions of creativity it is hard to image that anything but benevolence occurs.  We are designed by and for love and when we own that birth right and live it fully, we extend ourselves to others in kindness.  I used to think that kindness was something one was required to do because it was the right thing to do. That was at a time in my life when I could not see the benevolence that existed within me.  As I began to spend more date time with God I saw that being kind is an extension of my fullness of being because that is how I am created.  We are all equipped with the ability to be kind because it is the truth of who we are in God.  When I think I am separate from God, it becomes an obligation.  I am not saying that I always “feel” like being kind.  But living is more than just feeling, it is being.  If I am in alignment with my truest self,  I cannot help extend that self of love to others and to myself.  When I am out of alignment, missing the mark (sin), it becomes some sort of moral obligation by which good girls abide.  My prayer for us today is that when we find ourselves wanting to withhold kindness that we stop and ask God for the willingness to be our true selves.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The Great Creator, the designer of the Heavens and the Earth has created you.  Each day we are granted an opportunity to say yes to the gift that is us.  It is hard for us to see our true essences because we have taken on these stories of who we are which were based on circumstances.  Our true essence however is that we are the light of God for the world.  We are the messengers of love because we were created by and for love.  It is easy to get caught up in the roles we have taken on because of our physical circumstances–sister, mother, father, co-worker, husband, partner, girlfriend, etc.  But within those roles we are called to be the instrument through which love can occur.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to step within and get acquainted with our true self and see why God is so enamored.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

If you stop and look closely it as though everything is dancing!  I have always loved those scenes on TV and in movies where there is no talking but the interactions between the characters is set to music.  It is used to convey often a span of time.  It creates a very whimsical experience and as a kid I thought that was the ideal.  Of course it is all make-believe on the screen but we have all had times in our lives when things seem to flow. And we have times when we feel stuck.  Everything is an energy and energy travels in waves.  Maybe that is why so many are drawn to be by the ocean–it creates a literal experience of how life is really happening that we can see with our eyes. I wonder if the ocean ever feels stuck.  If we are waves of energy that are constantly moving, it is clear that it is simply our perception that we are stuck.  The only thing constant is change which tells me that things are always in movement.  Perhaps it is my thinking that is stuck because I am rooted in an idea that my ego does not want to let go of.  My thinking then creates the feeling of being stuck.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to recognizing the movement of the wave of our life in the small and subtle things so that we can begin to acknowledge it in the larger picture.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is always Right here, right now.  There is no other place for God to be but the present.  In this current moment we have everything we need, we are completely taken care of, we are breathing, and we are living in an abundant universe.  When we step out of this moment we move away from that.  Then we are less in alignment and find ourselves tripping about the future or preoccupied about the past.  We lose sight of what is right in front of us.  It seems to be part of the human condition to flow in and out of the now.  Often what causes us to step out of it is a decision that it is not what we want it to be.  It is not what we expected, we feel uncomfortable, or our minds determine it to be less than satisfactory.  In God’s mind, all is exactly as it should be and like anything else it is a moment to either be love or grow in love. The moment we are thinking instead of being in the moment we are stepping out of the now.  It becomes a dance and I am grateful to have God as a partner.  It is not about eradicating this tendency to step in and out of the moment but to enjoy the dance and know we have a partner.  In fact, when we start judging and thinking about the times we are not in the now.  My prayer for us today is that we take a deep breath and be in as many now moments as we can.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

In the world of Creation designed by our Great Creator there is no limit to what can be accomplished that leads to love.  If what we are engaging in allows us and others to grow in love as a result of our participation, then it will happen.  God designed the human experience to be a lesson of Love.  We get confused because we forget that we were created by and for love and we operate on a different level.  When we operate from a different level we create a different result. We are more powerful in our creative capabilities than we realize.  The first realization is recognizing that we play a role in creating our reality.  Our experience of life is a direct result of what we think about what is happening.  As Abraham Lincoln said, ” Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”  We are not victims of circumstance.  We are victors of creation because we can decide how to view the circumstance.  I need help with this.  Which is why a familiar prayer for me is God, help me to see this (person, situation, experience) as you see it. My prayer for us today is that we have the courage to own the power of our thought and choose to align it with the Great Creator’s.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

It is a miracle each time that we choose life.  We take that first breath in the morning and thus acknowledge our existence, hopefully with some gratitude, and the game is on.  It is hard to recognize the miraculous nature of this acceptance of God’s invitation because we cannot know in that moment how many did not get a breath this morning.  We also don’t (although we think we do) know how many more breaths we will get today.  Each one is an opportunity to say yes to life and be surprised by what God has in store for us.  In all honesty, sometimes I find God’s little surprises in packages and forms that I would rather not have.  That is because I am looking at them from the content perspective or the ego mind that measures only the physical experience.   These surprises that come in wrappings that seem unappealing are the ones that often cause the greatest opportunity to grow and experience love in a manner beyond what I thought I was capable of.  That is God’s surprise for us–for us to know and experience on a deep level the love of which we are capable. When we experience it we begin to recognize the Great Love from which we were created.  God wants more than anything for us to be tapped into that reality of who we are.  This is our greatest purpose.  My prayer for us today is that we have the willingness to see beneath the wrapping and be open to the experience of love that it will create unexpectedly–surprise!!! 😉  Make it a great one !  Peace~Colleen