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| What's a smoothie got to do with it? |
Recently I was watching a children’s television show, when the host was asked, “What is the meaning of Life?” His response was typical: “I don’t know,” but what he said next made me laugh out loud: “I don’t know, but I could really go for a smoothie right now!”
It’s funny to think about, but isn’t that how many of us respond to the big questions of life? "I don’t have the answer but a smoothie sure sounds good right about now!"
We end up numbing ourselves with immediate pleasures when what we really need to do is search for the truth. We mask our deep longings for meaning in different ways, sometimes with the classic drugs of our society -- alcohol, opiates, food, prescription pain killers -- or we do it with “good things” that become ends in themselves: our careers, our families, our busyness, our God-given abilities.
It’s funny to think about, but isn’t that how many of us respond to the big questions of life? "I don’t have the answer but a smoothie sure sounds good right about now!"
We end up numbing ourselves with immediate pleasures when what we really need to do is search for the truth. We mask our deep longings for meaning in different ways, sometimes with the classic drugs of our society -- alcohol, opiates, food, prescription pain killers -- or we do it with “good things” that become ends in themselves: our careers, our families, our busyness, our God-given abilities.
YOUR EXISTENCE MATTERS. YOU ARE A UNIQUE BEING WITH SOMETHING SPECIAL WHICH YOU MAY NOT EVEN BE AWARE OF.
Look within, it may sound funny at this moment if you have never done it before, but so what? Do it now! The potential exists for a new day...and a new you.
Look within, it may sound funny at this moment if you have never done it before, but so what? Do it now! The potential exists for a new day...and a new you.
As Socrates once said, “The unexamined life is not worth Living”. So when the deep, foundational questions of our existence bubble up to the surface, may we look first deep within ourselves...instead of a smoothie.
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