Answer this question, "Are you having fun with your
life?"
Drill right down. What are you doing with your life? What excites
you.
Where's the buzz? Life itself is what you've got going for yourself.
So are you living in joy?
Many people, in fact perhaps most people, live at a survival level.
Others live a mundane, boring life. What are you living?
Do you have a memory like this one from my own life growing up in Indiana?
"I remember lazy summers with lots of time to go swimming, biking,
or whatever. I had one passion in which I would lose myself for days at
a time. Model airplanes— tracing the pattern on to balsa wood and painstakingly
cutting out the pieces with exacto knives. Doing the assembly, pasting
on the decals, and then taking the newly created plane to a high window
for its first flight. What delight when it soared out the window and across
the lawn." Do you remember your childhood passions? What made your
heart soar?
So many people are using up their precious moments of life striving
for a bigger house, newer car, college for the kids, and many additional
outer expressions of the so-called necessities of life. How many moms and
dads are overwhelmed just trying to keep up with their notions of what
is called for to be a successful family? Being too busy trying to manage
a career and a family and not having fun and joy for breakfast, lunch,
and dinner. Some people born as ripe, plump grapes have become dried up
old prunes. Why be a raisin when you can be filled with juice?
Here is a task for you that can change your life. Begin now to figure
out how to live in the most delightful, fulfilling, stress-free life you
can imagine for yourself. Here are some truths.
Life for everyone is meant to be the experience of joyfully expressing
God-given gifts. We were born to be spontaneous and to play happily. Why
did we stop? What is so important about being an adult that we shut down
the joys of childhood?
Life as an expression of God can be child-like again. Get this truth,
"God wants me to live in the consciousness of my Godliness, not the rules
of ‘ought', ‘should,' and ‘must.'" The kingdom is a happy, joy-filled state
of mind where all our seats are reserved and ready for us. It's possible
for anyone to live like this. You can live it! This life can be yours!
Make attending Sunday Lessons and classes a habit and you will learn
how you can make inner changes and get your joy going. Be the person who
is doing what you love so much that you would do it for free. Share your
enthusiasm for life with everyone you meet. Meet whatever comes on the
screen with a laugh and a shout of excitement and joy.
Now get some paper and start writing your answer to this question: What
will it take for me to live a life where I'll be saying, "I'm joyful today
and excited about tomorrow!"
You can't get inner joy like buying a new washing machine that'll wash,
dry, press and hang up your clothes. This is an inside job you must do
for yourself. And you can! We have the tools you need and will gladly share
them with you. See you on Sunday! |
