Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Happiness
So lately I've been thinking a lot about happiness. What makes one happy? Is it possible to be happy with every aspect of life? Lately, I feel like I often have happiness in some areas of my life but never ALL at once! Why not? It makes me feel like maybe I am doing something wrong. Maybe I have the blinders on to what I am supposed to being doing in life. The song, the summons, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8lOfMjtxdE, has really be haunting me in someways lately. I keep questioning a decision I made lately that may have changed my life. It's not getting married to Tom because that is one decision that I know 100% without a doubt is what I am meant to do. It was another decision. I stood at an intersection where I could take a slight turn and I chose to stay on the road I was on. This decision made the most sense based on where life is headed and what Tom and I see for our future together. But part of me wonders, what if? What if this opportunity came up earlier? What if I took the turn! But then I remember why things are the way they are, I take a deep breath and know that in time things will work out. In time I will be 100% happy. It will come. In these times when I question, I am growing. When I struggle, I am growing. So that is good.
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I also wonder if it is even possible to be happy with all aspects of our lives at the same time. To me happiness seems to come in those random experiences and those random moments that I treasure. I personally don't think complete happiness is something that can be found on this earth because in order to have perfect happiness we need to have perfect communion with God. While we can have moments of communion with God here on earth, and while we can always strive towards that perfect relationship with him our fallen nature prevents us from having that complete and perfect communion with God.
ReplyDeleteQuestioning and wrestling with weighty thoughts are always a good thing because they help us to figure out who we are in relation to other people and they help us to grow and develop into the children of God who we are called to be.