Wednesday’s thoughts
“Take Your Life and Live It”
What keeps us from “living our lives”? What are the blockages for our having an opportunity to live a full and rich life?
I suppose there are many things that contribute to this problem and I will try to come up with three.
1. Background is a problem. It’s hard for us to make much of our lives if our background is prohibitive. Sometimes it is so difficult to rise above our background that it seems we are destined by it to be less then we can be. We cannot get very far unless we are able to push away from where we got our start.
2. Bad luck is a problem. There are periods in our lives when the only luck we have is bad. We make wrong choices and try to make things better only to realize we have come to make things worse. We seem to be defeated before we have a chance to overcome. We have to turn our bad luck into something better. We have to understand that we must play the hand we’re given and move from the point of discouragment with courage to find out how we can change our luck.
3. Bad health is a problem. There are times when we realize we haven’t been given the physical tools we need to accomplish what we need to achieve in life.
All this can force us to lose our sense of adventure. All this and other things can make us refuse to take our life and live it, and spend our time regretting our life as we have it. And we will have become salt that has lost its taste.
What causes us to become less than we can be and live less that we could? If you have thoughts on this write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to share your thoughts with others click on the ‘comments’ box below.
Charles Schuster
