It’s all quite comical to me, life that is. It is so intricate yet can be so simplistic. I cannot even seem to make a coherent, cognitive thought about the whole process of life. We are born one day and then are continually learning, struggling, growing, hurting, healing, searching and all for what? For me it’s simple – love.
I don’t know if you can relate with me or not but there is just a part of me that I can never get a word on. I cannot describe it but there is just something that happens to me when I hear a moving, powerful song or see someone change their life around. A good, inspirational movie or an article about someone changing the world one person at a time. I just get this urge, this feeling, this desire to do something more. I desire the passion and the love in my life that creates that “oomph” that makes people truly the spectacular creation that we are. I’ve found the love of my life which has provided that “oomph” to change myself and start to embrace the potential that is within myself. But I’m not just talking about when boy meets girl. I truly get upset with myself when I hear a very powerful song or see a movie where someone did something that no one else has done or is afraid to do and the question runs through my mind, “What am I doing with my time, my love, my desires, my life?”
We’ve (humankind) have been given such a special gift of being able to conquer, triumph, achieve and excel in the face of adversity, hardships and disbeliefs. It makes me so mad when those hardships get the best of me and I just accept them instead of fighting through them and showing the power that was created within me. We all have it but most of us have become complacent. That’s why we see those movies, hear those songs, read those articles where people do extraordinary things and instead of acting upon those feelings that well up inside, we simply say, “Good for them, more power to them.”
I’m not sure where you are but I’m almost positive that everyone has felt that longing inside to rise above this everyday mundane lifestyle that we seem to slip into. I don’t blame you or myself because our society has been engineered in that manner but I’m ready for something more, something epic. Let’s do something epic, something that no one thought we could do but because of who we are and how we were created, all things are possible.
*Download or search for the song Your Hand In Mine by Explosions in the Sky and truly take time out to listen to the music. Reflect upon your life: where you are, what you are doing and compare those answers to what your passions are, your desires. Do they match up or are you just trying to get by?*
C.Gates
Great post! When I approach some of the issues you mention, I lean a lot on the words of Solomon. He was truly the wisest, richest, studliest and blessed man who ever lived. He was chosen to build God’s temple and God blessed him in ways that no one has ever been blessed. Here are a couple of verses in Ecclesiastes that I always turn to:
“And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith” (Ecclesiastes 1:13). “All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?” (Ecclesiastes 7:23).
Now if the smartest, wisest most blessed man in the history of the world reached these conclusions in his pursuit of wisdom. I feel better about my own much more flawed pursuit. So I cling tight to God’s word and I continually fear the Lord and trust Him without leaning on my own wisdom or understanding.
As humble as some of our contributions might be, I hold tight to knowing the angels came first to the Shepherds to announce the birth of Christ.