dailydatewithgod

The world holds such magical and beautiful elements of energy!  At every moment something new is being born into existence.  We live in a universe that supports expansion and growth.  This is the energy from which we are created.  This is the energy that resides in each of us.  Our ego mind, however, would tell us a different story.  It is not aligned with the spiritual understanding of creation.  It is only aligned with what it can create with itself.  Its main focus seems to be on separation.  We are very creative people, what we create depends upon what we are creating from–our ego mind or our spiritual being.  One is limited, one is unlimited.  Any easy test to see where our creations are coming from is to ask if what we are creating or have created brings a sense of peace and ease in the quiet moments or if it brings discord and disease.  It is not whether others approve of it or if it is acceptable by the greater society or if it will earn us an award.  The greatest achievement of our creations are those that engender love and reclamation (reminder of God’s presence in the world).  When I act (i.e. create) from a space of connection with God, I am creating a force for the opportunity for love growth and learning.  When I act from a space of disconnection, difference, separateness, I am creating a force for what serves me alone.  I often choose this under the guise that it will keep me safe.  If I choose to smile at someone because I want to be in the spirit of reclamation then I am aligned with my higher self.  I choose this when I remember that God has got me no matter what happens. Whether or not they choose to smile back is dependent upon what they are aligned with, not me.  Making the choice to be a force for reclamation is an act of creation.  What do you want to create today?  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to choose acts of reclamation because it is innate in us, not because it will be received by others.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

God is a given.  God is the answer no matter what the question is.  God is always God.  God is ever-present.  God is the one constant in our ever-changing lives which is why God is that which we can rely upon no matter what.  Our relationship with God ebbs and flows.  Our relationship with God doesn’t always feel constant, but feelings are not facts.  Our minds are equipped with tremendous mechanisms for survival and I am personally grateful for them.  They are after all also from God.  Our minds however, are not all we are.  Who we are, like God, is not dependent on circumstance or outer manifestation, or approval from others.  Who we are at our core transcends our mind’s understanding.  When we feel like things are stuck, life sucks, we are not enough, and everyone is out to get us we are relying on the unconstant perspective of who we are. The constancy of who we are is not based on our circumstance because they will change but our essence will not.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to let go of defining ourselves by our finite and ever-changing reality and be open to seeing ourselves as God sees us constantly.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

“Sometimes the very thing we are looking for is the one things we don’t see.” (Vanessa Williams song).  There is so much to take in at every moment it is easy to get distracted and find ourselves focused on that which does not pertain to us.  God has given us so many gifts and when our hearts are not open to receive them our mind will jump in to justify the rejection.  We will find ourselves focusing on what others have, how what we have is not good enough and get ourselves so caught up in envy and jealousy that we lose sight of all that we do have.  For me, when I find myself stuck in this trap I can turn my attention to what I like.  To ask to see that which is right in front of me that I am not noticing.  God, show me how to like my life, my choices, how I am being, my circumstances, etc.  If I am open to seeing them differently then I notice they are exactly what is needed for growth in love.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to recognizing the likes of our lives, at least one.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

 Mother Theresa said, “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” In fact it is in the little things that we have the greatest opportunity to be love.  It puts its in much more sizeable chunks.  If we thought the only way to be loving was to give everything up and live as Mother Theresa did, we would probably never do it.  But smile at our neighbor or the driver who cuts us off, this we can do.  We may not want to, but it is not about want.  It is about acting our way back into our true nature.  We get caught up in our ego’s justifications for right and wrong and good and bad–in other words, our separateness, that we believe the lie that we are separate and need to remain so to be whole.  However, it is in the breaking down of the fallacy of our separateness from others, from God, and from ourselves that we are able to step into our wholeness and our connectedness.  I can remember today to do little things with the love that is given me from God because I know that it does not come from just me.  When we have our date time in the morning, I sit in a space of connectedness.  Whether I feel it or not, the time is for me to connect with My Creator so that when I have the choice of acting out of love or separateness I can choose love.  My prayer for us today is that we be willing to do one little act of love so that it can inject that experience and remind ourselves that we are not separate from God.  Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen

The miraculous thing about living and being in a space where we know who we truly are allows us to live in triumph.  If we know deep down that we are connected to All That Is, we can stand tall and know that whatever happens cannot destroy us.  Here in the physical earthly experience we learn of difficulty and stress and lack of peace, but it does not change who we are.  We are created by the Great Creator who designed us for love and to be love.  The fact that we don’t always remember that and own it is simply a case of forgetting.  That is why our conscious decision to reconnect with Our Creator plays a vital role in our day-to-day existence.  We need a space to restore and align ourselves with who we truly are.  We need to remember so that we can carry out and play the role for which our souls are destined.  My date time with God each morning creates the space and the opportunity to be reminded, which is why after a while it became so important to me.  Once I got a taste of remembrance and knowledge in my heart of the triumph over the human experience which had pulled me down, I was willing to do whatever it took to keep being reminded.  The beauty of the connection and the opportunity to be reminded is that because it comes from God and God is everywhere all the time, it can happen everywhere and anytime.  All I need to do is take a breath and ask that my eyes be opened from my heart so that I can again be reminded of the truth.  My prayer for us today is that we know no matter how far off the beaten path we may have gone today we remember we can stop and connect because no path leads us farther than God’s reach.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

Gods stays.  God is here to stay.  Love cannot go anywhere, it is all that is. It is all that ever was.  It is all that will ever be.  In an ever-changing world that is always coming up with the next and the greatest, it is hard for our minds to imagine what it means to just be still and stay in the moment.  We struggle with this not because is foreign to our truest sense of self but because we lack experience.  Sitting with God each morning on our date has taught me the discipline of just staying.  There is no where else to be, nothing to be done, nothing to get away from or get to.  What I have come to experience over the years of having this time with God each morning is that there is no where else I would rather be.  God shows up every day, no matter what.  Regardless of what I did the day before, whether or not my mind is going a mile a minute, or if I even want to be here, God is here with open arms.  Just like that day in the chapel that I described before. God is glad when we show up.  God is even more delighted when we stay a while.  This continues to teach me the value of presence.  I have learned how to be with me, to stay with me, when I want to throw me away.  It teaches me to stay with others when I want to walk away or am bothered by something they do that wasn’t what I expected.  God invites me to be as God is.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to staying just one more moment with ourselves then we think we can handle.  Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen

Deep down in the recesses of our hearts we are searching for asense of comfort and peace.  It is our drive to this sense of wholeness and feeling of being at home that drives us.  In the awareness that we are missing that sense of wholeness and comfort in ourselves the moves us to search for it.  St. Augustine speak of a restlessness of heart.  Every person who has had a longing knows of this experience.  The difficulty we encounter is that we search for it relentlessly but often in the wrong places.  We often look for it outside of ourselves.  The sense of peace and coziness we seek actually resides within us.  It is found in the touching of the God within us.  We sense it when we see it displayed in others and in experiences in the world outside of us.  But it touches and awakens the place inside of us.  We will be ultimately disappointed if we continue to only seek it outside of ourselves.  Our salvation is to be found when we recognize that what we are experiencing has awakened something from inside of us and we must return to that to experience it more fully again and again.  My prayer for us today is that when we notice an experience or a person that causes us to feel that sense of coziness or peace or wholeness we recognize that the feeling or sense is coming from within us, the outside experience is simply a conduit to awaken us.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

One of thewisdoms that comes with time is the value of it.  We begin to recognize that the days, the months, and the years pass more and more quickly.  I still remember as a kid in 6th grade looking at the calendar thinking, oh my goodness it is forever until June when school gets out.  As we step into this wrap of the 2014 year we often hear a conversation about the opposite: “I can’t believe Thanksgiving is here already.  Where did the year go?”  Good question.  I suppose it came one day at a time the way it normally does.  What I want to look at is what did I spend that year doing.  It matters little in the end if it moved fast or slow, I want to know that I spent the time doing something of value.  When I look at the day yesterday or the past week, did my time consist of being and doing in ways that are in alignment with my greater purpose of growing in love.  Did I face the challenges to love that came my way with a sense of surrender, an openness to learn or a willingness to let go of thinking that wasn’t working for me?  Or did I close off my heart and think I had to figure it out on my own?  Did the value of last month’s heart growth show in my courage to take in all the good that came my way or did I brush it off because it didn’t show up the way I wanted?  My prayer for us today is that we ask God for the courage to be and do that which emanates our value and the value of others in love.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The world is full and complete.  When the Great Creator put the design in place all the energy that was to be was created.  All life comes down to energy and an exchange of energy.  Even Einstein determined that energy is neither created nor destroyed, it simply switches form and shape.  Therefore how we use, harvest, release, put attention on, or preserve energy creates our life experience.  A lot of focus is often put on money. Therefore wealth is often determined as the having of money.  Wealth is more about the use of energy including the stuff that is green paper and coins.  Wealth is about a state of mind.  A perspective of abundance and allowing.  If we look at it as based just on the amount of green paper and coins we possess in the moment then we are restricting it to that form of energy specifically.  When I expand my perspective and see that wealth is about a state of being.  It is about an acknowledgment that the Being the Created me did so out of abundance.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to shifting our perspective of wealth to more than just the physical manifestation of money.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

The Great Creator has come up with so many grand designs.  We see them throughout nature and value them. We are suspended by the beauty of the moon, the mountains, ocean, sunsets, and so much more.  We feel a oneness with creation when we spend time in nature.  We too are a manifestation of God.  We are the light of the world in the physical presence.  Our beauty is as precious as a flower or a wave in the ocean. When we are still and let the light shine from within us people are awestruck by our presence.  When we engage and live out our talents and creations others are blown away by the majesty and the elegance of the design of our way of being.  It is easy in the hum drum of the day-to-day life to forget to stop and notice this manifestation of God.  Sometimes when I am in a place waiting in line I will look around at the people in line or near by me and really notice the design of the human beings around me in the same way that I notice how the wind moves through the trees.  We are exquisite designs.  Not just in our physical form but in the energy we carry and the way we function.  My prayer for us today is that we be open to seeing ourselves and others as a manifestation of All That Is.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen