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A Beautiful Life...
There is really nothing I want more than to live a beautiful life. But it seems that life's cruel intent is to dash that desire and turn it into something more practical, more doable, something to do more with survival or success than true Life. I guess I've often despaired of ever living a beautiful life, especially recently.
But just yesterday I was given this picture of a person who could live a beautiful life. I'm sure you'll know what I mean. This person knows how to live life and live in complete happiness. This person knows how to deal with daily stress. This person knows how to deal with heart-crushing tragedy. This person knows how to deal with difficult people. This person knows how to live. This person delights in most everything.
To describe this person is not all that easy. This person has a real relationship with God, but it's more than just a relationship. This person has an incredible faith, but it's so much different than hardened belief. This person has a positive outlook, but it's not the kind that regularly irritates realists.
This person possesses a beautiful spirit.
I'm seeing it now, and for me it's an awesome discovery. I'm sure lots of you have known this for ages, so you'll have to pardon my naive joy. In the last year I have seen and experienced very sharply the pain and heartache that permeates our planet. I have hated it. I have wondered how anyone can live a sane life in the face of all this. My faith has been small, weak at times. It still is. Every now and then I would see people living lives obviously full of joy and I was glad, very glad that there was at least a little happiness in the world. It amazed me that they could do it and I thought they must have their heads in the sand, at least partially. But now I am seeing that the beauty and the happiness in these people's lives comes not so much from the actual circumstances of their lives as from they way they respond to them. There may be little or no beauty in the events of these people's lives but these normal, dull, and ordinarily ordinary events are turned into things of great beauty and joy by the way these people experience them. Is this making any sense? Like I said already, this idea has probably been perfectly obvious to most of you for years. However, I think if I could truly live this out, and it could only be with lots of help from Jesus, it would revolutionize my life!
But just yesterday I was given this picture of a person who could live a beautiful life. I'm sure you'll know what I mean. This person knows how to live life and live in complete happiness. This person knows how to deal with daily stress. This person knows how to deal with heart-crushing tragedy. This person knows how to deal with difficult people. This person knows how to live. This person delights in most everything.
To describe this person is not all that easy. This person has a real relationship with God, but it's more than just a relationship. This person has an incredible faith, but it's so much different than hardened belief. This person has a positive outlook, but it's not the kind that regularly irritates realists.
This person possesses a beautiful spirit.
I'm seeing it now, and for me it's an awesome discovery. I'm sure lots of you have known this for ages, so you'll have to pardon my naive joy. In the last year I have seen and experienced very sharply the pain and heartache that permeates our planet. I have hated it. I have wondered how anyone can live a sane life in the face of all this. My faith has been small, weak at times. It still is. Every now and then I would see people living lives obviously full of joy and I was glad, very glad that there was at least a little happiness in the world. It amazed me that they could do it and I thought they must have their heads in the sand, at least partially. But now I am seeing that the beauty and the happiness in these people's lives comes not so much from the actual circumstances of their lives as from they way they respond to them. There may be little or no beauty in the events of these people's lives but these normal, dull, and ordinarily ordinary events are turned into things of great beauty and joy by the way these people experience them. Is this making any sense? Like I said already, this idea has probably been perfectly obvious to most of you for years. However, I think if I could truly live this out, and it could only be with lots of help from Jesus, it would revolutionize my life!
posted by darrell hershberger | 9:58 PM
3 Comments:
Amen Hershy!
I like this post alot and even if we have thought of it before -It's good to have a reminder from a Former FBer!! May God give you grace to become this person.
Thanks! --whoever you are.
Inspiring.
"You were given a picture." So I'm curious. Did this come by divine revelation out of the blue, or by divine revelation via a real flesh-and-blood archetype?
For me the most gripping pictures are the ones that walk and breathe.
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