I know of nothing more inwardly boredom-packed than living from paycheck to paycheck. I speak not against having an income. Yet, I do address the futility of trying to make a robust life from income one moment that bleeds into outgo for the rest of the week. I've been there. Done that.
Meaning isn't found in careers, incomes, nor in our best accomplishments. Real, authentic meaning is awakened when we invest in others who have needs. The good news is that such an awakening never sleeps.
We are so created in God's image that when we bless another, we sense our highest reality. We are at home when we reach to see that another receives encouragement and strength. And this fits for in giving ourselves away (dying to selfishness) we experience true living. Didn't Jesus die to himself that we might live and then ask us to repeat his process in our personal walk....I Peter 2:21-25?
Unhappy?
Do you know some who could wear a T-shirt: UNHAPPY UNHAPPY UNHAPPY?
The door to HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY is OTHERS OTHERS OTHERS.
Americans aren't in need of therapy as much as we are in need of a mission. Re-discussing ourselves by looking at our belly-buttons is a vain effort of selfie on the grandest scale. Lifting our eyes to the handicapped, and the lonely, and the rejected awakens our souls to the highest grade of power. We are useful when we see, and act, and touch those who are much worse off than we.
If you know of someone who can't get happy, maybe you would be the one to help. Maybe they need a cause bigger than themselves. They do. A visit to a burn center or a detention center or a food bank or a family shelter might be just the thing to help those of us who are feeling wounded.
We each take our turns at being down and blue. I've had my fair share. But the issue has never been how am I doing. I has been where I am focusing. It seems that the greatest work on earth is being the light Jesus insisted we be only to find out that such brightness begins to show up in another's eyes.
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