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Origins of life

If you've had a good holiday recently, I hope you will relate to this.  There are things that we do that can make us happy.  (I really hope you can relate to this!)  Some activities, not necessarily anything huge or amazing, just make us feel like they are our reason - they are what we are here for.  For me, one such activity is time alone with my camera, using that as an excuse to just look at and soak up (sometimes literally) the amazing sights and sounds and space that make up this world we live in.  Teaching is another big one for me.  It makes me exhausted, often voice-less, but I come away feeling that the little tutorial on some obscure aspect of engineering is a part of what gives me life and joy.  Weird, huh! Same again for music.  These are, you understand, things that happen to me that just happen to make me happy.  But the main point about these particular things is the feeling that I am in the right place at the right time doing the right thing - and that feeling of rightness is the real reason I find these activities so special. 

There is another thing that makes me feel that way, and that is when I am conscious of worshipping God.  Doesn't really matter where or with whom - worship is another thing that sparks off that feeling of being right in all possible ways. 

And I think that this is the crux - that those activities that make me happy only do so because, somehow, they do line up with something that is right for me.  The things that give that feeling will probably be different for you.  But worship is right for everyone.  And it's right for everyone all the time.  It is, in the biggest sense, what we are for - by worshipping God we are fulfilling what he made us for.  So I think that it's about time I got away from the feeling that things that happen make me happy, and more towards the knowledge that anywhere, anytime, I can be in that right space just by turning towards God and acknowledging who he really is.  So go ahead and find those things that give you life - that are the right activities for you to be involved in.  They could be anything!  But remember at the same time that the rightness that comes from them is just an echo of the rightness that comes from worship.  Perhaps as I realise this more, I can know that joy more of the time, and not just on holiday.  Just a thought, K

• Posted by flyingkiwi on 17/01/2007.
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