This is no complaint. I like my life. I even love some parts. But lately I have been thinking that my life could improve. I want to simplify it some how. But like so many I am pulled in several directions at once. My best days are simple days: people, conversations, contentment, love, service and sacrifice (oh yeah good bold coffee and good music).
Some times I go through a quick assessment of who I can really listen to and be with and who I just need to move along. I usually feel bad after I do that. Lately I have been asking the question of what does it really mean to love another person? This is a long running study I am doing that I hope becomes much more then a good journal entry.
Here is a piece of my early findings. Love is not merely emotion. Love is devotion. This is show in commitment and measured by self-giving, practical action, and sacrifice. Love values other people as worthy ends in themselves and does not merely use them as a means to an end.
A simple day is a string of circumstances where I interact with people, people who I want to love. I hate the thought that I have used a person and that I have been used. In the church many pray to be used by God. I wonder if I really know the difference between God's use of me and my use of others.
1 comment:
ben- sweet blog! tried to post on your other entry, and screwed it up somehow. anyway, i saw that you posted on my entry and know that i'm thinking through some similiar things.
by the way- what's the name "trouble landing" about? is that your new middle name: ben "trouble landing" murray??
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