Part One: Restructuring Your Perspective
Intelligence, happiness, money, fame...what is really important to make your heart whole?
Intelligence is a highly held value in our American Society. Often it is mistakenly one of the most respected qualities of our humanhood. Intelligence needs to be put in perspective far away from the top of the list of important qualities. Intelligence is obviously not a vehicle toward happiness as high IQ people are often miserable. Unless being miserable is one's goal, then it stands to reason that intelligence is not a quality sufficient to bring "success". I offer as an example, the Unibomber, obviously a failed miserable genius.
For the moment, forget about intelligence. Maybe another avenue is more important. Maybe being a happy person is most important. Human nature yearns for happiness. We crave satisfaction and happiness as elements of our survival. We strive to be happy and often mistakenly believe that somehow blistful happiness is attainable.
The truth is that this world does not have a job opening for "The Happiest Person". The entire world is full of sorrow no matter where you are personally. How can a person totally happy when people and animals all over the world are suffering? No one can be totally happy.
Conversely, we should strive to be content. Today I offer one step toward contentment.
Realize that you are no more important than anyone else in the world. That your personal self satisfaction is NOT the most important objective to your or everyone else's life. It is pitifully insignificant in the grand scheme of the material universe. Put yourself in perspective. Visualize yourself from the persepctive of Alpha Centauri (if it were living) and you will see that you are no more or less important to Alpha Centauri than George Bush, John Kerry, the pope or the scientist on the verge of discovering a cure for all cancers. This is a fact.
Polluter, murderer, adulterer, healer, janitor, president you are absolutely insignificant to the nature of the universe.
So from where does your value come? Your value comes from being a product of God. In only this fact can you rest assured that you have a valuable purpose here on earth and as a bonus, a purpose for all eternity.
If you are truly an open minded person, then open your mind to the thought that God exists. If this seems absurd, at least it is not harmful. Believing in God could only be harmful if God really does exist and you construe that your believing such will somehow change you in a detrimental way. If God does exist, His plan is better than yours. If God does not exist, then there is no harm done. Secondly, I encourage you to ask God to let you know of His presence. Listen for Him.
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