In my brief time on planet earth there have been various ways I have come across to describe this thing called life.
There are pretty metaphors used that can help make sense of it. It doesn’t explain everything, but it certainly helps with some areas of it.
One of the helpful metaphors I’ve come across is seeing life as a play. We don’t rehearse, we are always performing. In the play, however, there are certain scripts that have already been laid out for us by our parents, our culture and other influential sources in our upbringing.
A dominant script appears to be the pursuit of contentment to be found through financial security.
Let me encourage you to check the script.
When I checked it, I noticed that some of the twists in the tale didn’t make me turn out so good. In fact I would follow the script, and jump through the hoops only to discover that life is not better following the script. The boxes can be ticked – good job, good pay, settled affairs, positive career prospects – and yet the contentment is missing. Indeed those ticked boxes don’t cover deeper issues of identity that leads to that level of desired contentment.
Let me encourage you to consider another script.
A counter-cultural script.
One that turns a lot of the accepted values upside down. A script that says that the road to happiness involves sadness. Riches is found in poverty. Greatness is found in humility. Power is expressed in meekness. To be lifted is found in being abased.
The Scriptwriter of this particular script really does have your contentment in mind, but it is often found in the arduous, trying, uncomfortable and inconvenient.
As yet I have certainly found this script a lot better to follow than the one put forward by others.
Even if you’re not convinced, and why should you, who am I? I still encourage you. At the very least.
Check the script.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
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