Many of us, in our everyday lives, are lost in details, worries and stress. The last time I flew, I felt as I often do, that at 30,000 feet I sometimes have a glimpse at a bigger perspective. Here are some questions that came up for me:
- How our lives can feel more victorious?
- How do we all live with love and strength, more often?
- How do we see what good we all share and together celebrate the certainty that we will overcome?
We cannot know when and how misfortune will attack us. But we all can agree that most of us have been blessed most of the time and that, in troubles, we have been lifted up and saved. So we should know that the goodness of God is real and our Hope will not fail.
Therefore, let us not waste any more time in fear and worry, arguments and schemes. Let us find our strengths and walk forward in them. Join with your loved ones to go forward confidently. Share your joy and hope, even with strangers. Be peaceful and patient and enjoy what God has given us.
Today is the best day we've ever had and tomorrow's glories would astound you if you could see them.
This is not a reason to congratulate ourselves. We can choose Good and Hope. We can choose the positive. We can choose to be giving. Or we can strive for ourselves only and drown and gasp in the side-effect stress of a selfish life, which is wasteful and sad because there is so much darkness left in the world to overcome. The crime and poverty and disease in some places seems like a black hole that would destroy us if we touched it. We cannot know for sure it's our destiny to fix messes that have rotted for hundreds of years. But we certainly never will change them if all we think of is our next meal, movie, or vacation.
There are two great American traditions- one is a righteous benevolence, and the other is a selfish addiction to luxury. It has been easy for us to do both, but as globalization eats away at our storehouses and slows our momentum, we can choose either to put our heads down dig in and grab for our piece, or we can stop short, shift up and start giving with faith. Some of the places we would save imply, by virtue of the consequences of their tribal xenophobic hatred, that the nuclear family against the world approach isn't enough. We're not hippies either. But with balance, we can have more than enough and improve the lives of others.
It's so easy to just go home and live in the imaginary worlds created by TV and video games and the internet while millions starve and look for a place to sleep each night and drown in alcoholism and fight against suicidal thoughts. We have so much but we can't hold onto it like gollum and his precious ring, or it destroys the best part of us.
Therefore, let us not waste any more time in fear and worry, arguments and schemes. Let us find our strengths and walk forward in them. Join with your loved ones to go forward confidently. Share your joy and hope, even with strangers. Be peaceful and patient and enjoy what God has given us.
Today is the best day we've ever had and tomorrow's glories would astound you if you could see them.
This is not a reason to congratulate ourselves. We can choose Good and Hope. We can choose the positive. We can choose to be giving. Or we can strive for ourselves only and drown and gasp in the side-effect stress of a selfish life, which is wasteful and sad because there is so much darkness left in the world to overcome. The crime and poverty and disease in some places seems like a black hole that would destroy us if we touched it. We cannot know for sure it's our destiny to fix messes that have rotted for hundreds of years. But we certainly never will change them if all we think of is our next meal, movie, or vacation.
There are two great American traditions- one is a righteous benevolence, and the other is a selfish addiction to luxury. It has been easy for us to do both, but as globalization eats away at our storehouses and slows our momentum, we can choose either to put our heads down dig in and grab for our piece, or we can stop short, shift up and start giving with faith. Some of the places we would save imply, by virtue of the consequences of their tribal xenophobic hatred, that the nuclear family against the world approach isn't enough. We're not hippies either. But with balance, we can have more than enough and improve the lives of others.
It's so easy to just go home and live in the imaginary worlds created by TV and video games and the internet while millions starve and look for a place to sleep each night and drown in alcoholism and fight against suicidal thoughts. We have so much but we can't hold onto it like gollum and his precious ring, or it destroys the best part of us.
We have to give away our hope and well being or it leaves us.
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