I'm in a time of my life where everyone I know is entering the "real world" and picking careers - some picking jobs until they decide what they want to do for a career or until they can make it in that particular career. Advice that I hear often is to do what you love and love what you do. Well.. I love people and I love music and I love exercising and I love pretty days, and I love dogs, and... I love a lot of things but I feel so strongly that I'm supposed to pursue a career in music. I LOVE WRITING. It calms the tornado of thoughts perpetuating in my mind and places them gently on paper (or in this case a laptop screen) and allows me to look at them and see that they're not as big as I make them. They're tiny words in Times New Roman and I can handle that. HOWEVER, I can only handle that because it reminds me that God is big and he can handle each and every one of my tiny words, or issues, or situations, or whatever you want to call them - Again, He is the Author.
So, happiness.. I've found a certain level of happiness in a lot of things in life. I find it every day in one thing or another but it never lasts more than a little while. Things that make me temporarily happy: A good adrenaline rush. A smile from a friend. The release of endorphins into my brain when I run a long distance. Animals - they seem so carefree. Kids, I'm not around them much as a college student but their wide-eyed innocence and faith are beautiful. A good song, one that can change my emotional state (duh). A good cup of tea. An hour without allergies. Random facebook messages or @'s on twitter. And the list goes on.. Fact is, those things DO make me happy but I've found it's only for a while. Not that I'm sad unless something is constantly "making me happy" but those are just the spikes in my heart monitor.
"Light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun. However many years a man may live, let him enjoy them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is meaningless. Be happy, young man, while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring judgment. So then, banish anxiety from your heart and cast off the troubles of your body, for youth and vigor are meaningless."
- Ecclesiastes 11:7-10
"Be HAPPY young man while you are young... youth and vigor are meaningless." I think Solomon is saying that it's ok to enjoy the little things in life that make you happy BUT to always keep in mind that these things are meaningless - "like chasing the wind" - and to remember that man will never find true happiness in things of this world. Because he is an infinite being, he will never find real happiness in finite things. He can only find happiness in his creator God. God knows him because He created him and He desires to spend eternity with him.
That said, I'll look forward to that day and do my best to prepare but I'll also enjoy the tea, adrenaline rushes, endorphins, and animals : ) Thanks for reading and I hope you're having an outstanding day and enjoying the little things!
soon,
bobby
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