dailydatewithgod

In this moment there exists a beauty thatsurpasses understanding.  This beauty has the subtle quality of existing without even being noticed unless we make a conscious effort to.  It is like a running current that follows the path of the stream and makes its way home to the ocean day after day.  There is a flow of energy that is occurring and its design is set from the beginning by its Creator.  Our lives are the same way.  There is an infinite design and designer that is involved in the creation of our lives.  We can awaken to and align ourselves with that path or we can forge out on our own.  Perhaps there is room for both.  Like most rivers and streams there is a merging of other rivers and streams (different paths) along the way to the ocean.  We consistently have things that contribute to our lives in a big and small ways and shape the course of our lives by how much of them we take in.  Eventually we all make it to the same home and are connected to the same source.  My prayer for us today is that we notice the divergent paths that intersect with ours and what contribution we let them make to our day.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

There is a space that is not limited by time and place in which our spirit resides. A space that is abundant and full, has no expectations or things to do, it is complete and whole.  This space exists within our spirits which are housed in a physical body and mind that is in place bound by time and place, has limits and thinks that it is in parts.  This duality presents a conundrum and often a disconnect between our mind and our hearts.  Thus, the human struggle that we often feel when we find ourselves in an experience that reconnects us to our truest selves.  When we reach the limits of the physical experience and our ego’s stories no longer serve us, we find ourselves at a cross roads.  It appears like a breakdown and an ending because our ego feels like it is dying.  Instead we are being given an opportunity to embrace life of our spirit.  It is scary and uncertain only because it is unfamiliar.  Our ego which is invested in comfort tells us that this uncomfortable or unknown space of growth is wrong somehow. This is where we need something greater than ourselves that designed our spirits. God is always ready and available to remind us that we are more than we “think” we are.  We are deeper and more connected than the sense of separation that we feel and All Is Well. My prayer for us today is that we be open to listening in the depths of our hearts for God’s voice that reminds us that We Are Well.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

We live each day in this beautiful world with plenty to draw our attention.  There is never a shortage of things to see, do, and experience.  Then on top of that for those who live in major cities there is even more specifically design to capture our attention.  Those who have a TV or an electronic device can add that to the list as well. And none of this incorporates the things that we are paying attention to in our minds that are not currently happening–the past and the future. It is funny how we measure the different options of focus.  Some as seen as a distraction while others as worthy of our attention and those are the things just outside of ourselves.  How often do we stop to notice if the thinking in our own minds is a distraction or a worthy focus?  Where our focus is our energy is.  What we focus on expands.  The focus we set in our minds determines what we see outside of ourselves.  We usually think it is the opposite but the attention of our minds colors what we see or don’t see outside our minds.  During my date time I find that I am consistently drawn again and again by God to look at what I am grateful for.  It doesn’t mean that I ignore those things that I am troubled by or need my attention, but when I start with what I am grateful for I am shaping my focus.  Then I can see what there is to be grateful for about whatever I encounter throughout the day.  It is the simplicity of presence to what is.  There is always something to be grateful for, always.  My prayer for us today is that we start our focus wherever we are in our day and notice that which we are genuinely grateful for and go from there.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

There exists within each of us this every burning light.  It is the light placed within our spirits before our creation.  It is the light that was lit in the mind of God and the thought moment of our conception.  It is a light that burns deep within us and throughout us if we let it.  It is the light of hope, love, and everlasting connection to Our Creator.  We sense it when we experience the love of God through others, through living our purpose, and in the stillness of our breath.  This lightness of being is God’s gift to us over and over again reminding us that when we feel weighted down by the world, by our thoughts, and by our hurts that there is another way.  It requires us to let go even if for just a moment of the idea that we must do in order to be free.  The reality of God is that we are free when we are being.  When we are being we are living in the light and we sense that freedom by the lightness of being.  I sense it when I connect with another human being in a genuine way, when a trusted friend kindly listens to me bear my heart, when I am aligned with my spirit and living my purpose, when I let go of a fixed idea that I know how something is going to happen, etc.  There is a lightness that occurs when I am trusting that God is my everything and my job is to show up and be of service.  My prayer for us today is that when we feel weighted down by the world and our minds, we have the courage to pause, take a breath and ask God for the courage to connect and be the lightness of love that exists within us.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

In this moment in which you have taken a breath the Great Creator made a decision.  A decision that is not so much an action of mind but rather just who God is.  That decision or action of being is to choose you.  Over and over again I am reminded that the reason I am here is because God wants me to be.  The reason I AM is because God wants me to be.  All these years of thinking I wasn’t wanted, loved, or appreciated, I was simply looking in the wrong place to experience it.  I looked to circumstances, people, and myself.  Sometimes it was there but often not in the way that I needed it to fill my heart. So I made a decision that I was not worth the time or effort.  We all have this God-sized hole in our hearts and when we fill it with something other than God we experience a disappointment.  But the magic of opportunity is still present because that experience of disappointment can lead us to search fervently for the One who would fill that hole in such a profound way that we need not seek anything outside of ourselves again.  Each day when I spend my date time with God (and throughout the day) I am reminded that the Great Creator who designed the mountains and the seas, created feelings of joy, and makes sure the flowers grow took great care in manifesting me.  This One desires to be close to me.  Do I want to be with me as much as God does?  If not, what makes me think I know better than God?  My prayer for us today is that we be open to seeing being with ourselves as God sees it.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

When things have a purpose they make sense.  When we human beings have a purpose we have a flow and a sense of peace.  I know when I was in college working towards my bachelor’s degree I thought I had to figure out what I wanted to do with my life and I was at a loss.  There was no straight subject line that would lead me directly to what I wanted to do, in the times that I thought I knew what that was.  So I studied subjects that interested me and in the end I realized it was less about which degree I received and more about the process of working toward and accomplishing a goal.  I knew how to be useful in that arena.  I had to set some disciplines in place so that I completed my work, signed up for the classes I needed.  I learned to ask questions and share ideas.  I got to know people I would not normally have had the opportunity to meet.  I was of service to others by finding uses for my talents.  Those 4 1/2 years of my life stand out as a time where I learned a lot about the world, about myself, and about how I approach life.  It was a time of tremendous growth and uncertainty.  Part of that time I was brought face to face with some of my own demons and had not the least bit of an idea of what to do.  But the times in which I thrived were those in which I saw some usefulness or way that I could contribute–to others and to myself. My prayer for us today is that we find a small way to be useful and see what happens to our mind’s focus and perspective during that time.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

We have this tremendous gift of a mind that processes information.  Our brain has certain processes that require no thought or effort on our part like the part that tells the cell to travel through our blood stream or take a breath in and out.  This processing of information that requires thought therefore gives us many options.  Much of what we have done as a result of evolution is taken to creating the same automation for those that could require conscious thought.  Our brain so wants to help us out that it figures if it works for breath and messages through the spinal column then why not use what is already stored in the mind to make every other decision?  This means that we often are making decisions about things not based on what is actually happening but on a programming set in place from some experience from the past. This is where the gift of being present in the moment allows for creation.  If we stop and paused and observe what is actually happening before all the chatter and categorization of our mind occurs we can make a conscious choice of how to act in a specific situation.  God is calling us to be an observer of our life and our mind.  We need not judge it, but start by being present to it.  My prayer for us today is that we have the willingness to take the pause that comes with a breath and instead of reacting to a situation simply observe it and see what information we can gather.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

Everything is energy.  Energy carries vibration.  The greater the energy, the greater the vibration.  If we stop long enough to notice you can see that the whole planet is existing at a specific vibration.  My lack of astronomical knowledge is probably fairly evident here but as far as I understand it, the spinning of the planet around the sun creates a specific vibration.  The rays of the sun on our planet have a vibration.  Our breath has a vibration.  Everything that exists has this energy either in motion or stagnant.  Einstein said that energy is neither created nor destroyed, it simply changes from one form to another.  The greatest power then becomes in the use of our energy. Our thoughts and feeling carry energy.  When we focus on particular thoughts, the energy becomes greater.  That energy goes into motion and creates what we know as emotions (or as I heard it put once, emotions=energy in motion).  The experience of being run by our emotions is because of the power of energy in motion.  This is also why stuffing emotions down doesn’t work so well.  The energy does not go away it just gets pocketed somewhere.  Out of consciousness does not mean out of mind.  If God gifted us with all this energy in all of these different forms, don’t you think God would want us to use this energy in a way that brings about greater love (the essence of who we are)?  It is easy to latch on to the collective energy focus, it requires little decision on my part.  I am interested in what God’s focus of energy is for me for the day.  So I wake up and spend some date time with God to start my energetic day in alignment with THE power of love.  My prayer for us today is that we begin to notice where we focus our energy and be curious about how that shapes our day.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

Within this very moment at which you are reading these words there is an understanding taking place.  The understanding is your mind’s translation of these characters as words and sentences which hold specific meaning so that you can logically understand in your mind.  The way your breath is moving in and out of your body and causing your organs to keep pumping and going is an understanding between the brain and the body.  The affection that you extend to those closest to you is an understanding of the meaning of your relationship.  But what about the things that we do not understand?  What about the times when people closes to us act in ways that have a different meaning for us than for them?  What about the times when we thought we knew to be true turns out not to be?  What about the events that cause us to question our understanding of who we are in the world?  Being with understanding is the patience and the trust of something beyond our understanding even when it doesn’t make sense.  God is beyond our understanding.  We get snippets and moments of enlightenment but God is constantly shifting and growing as much as we are.  God is within our hearts and our spirits in such a way that awakens us to a new reality.  When in that place of stillness with God that the ego world resists, is the moment of greatest understanding that we crave from a world that does not know how to give us what we need most.  My prayer for us today is that when we are in the spaces of understanding or misunderstanding we experience the comfort of God that comes from within and speaks to our spirits that all we need to understand in this moment is that God is. Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

Patience is a virtue . . . an expression I heard my whole life and never understood.  To me it meant that being patient was something saintly and if I were really being good, then I would embrace this way of being.  Patience is a reality.  It is having the fortitude to be in the in between times when it seems like nothing is happening and not lose faith.  Patience is surrender.  It is being willing to trust that Someone else is in charge and if things are not going according to our time line.  Patience is freedom.  It is the courage to not be bound by our own thinking and expectations of life.  Patience is joy.  It is the knowledge that we are more than just our physical experience and who we are surpasses any circumstance.  So if you were to ask me if I was interested in being in reality, surrendered, free and joyful I would say yes.  So God, this day I ask for patience for myself and all those who are lacking this quality of spirit.  Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen