At one point or another every one of us have risen from our pillow and thought, "This is not my life. It was never supposed to be this way. It's not what I planned or worked so hard to achieve." Yet it is the life we are living. Knowledge and understanding have educated us to the reality that THIS is not the real life. The life we need and want is yet to come. Yet we continue to be surprised when we are disappointed and our hopes dashed. Ahhh the peace that will come when we really relinquish the hold we have on our ideals of having the life we wanted on this, the dark side of forever.
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4 comments:
I love the last sentence. 'The dark side of forever' is awesome!
I'll have to meditate on the disappointed thought. I do remember my divorce suprising me...but since then, I can't think of anything else that surprises me. Does that mean I've lost my idealism? Have I turned from a realist to a pessimist? I'm going to pay attention to that for awhile...
I see you as someone who still holds on to hope of your ideal life but it's buried deep beneath pessimism and fear, lots and lots of fear. Every time hope tries to push your ideal up through the fear you drop another pound of fear on top. There are my two pennies from where I stand. But I can't see anything from here anyway, so don't hold me to that as truth.
I think we need to stop telling our kids that they can have whatever life they want depending on how hard they work, because its not true. At all. There are absolutely no guarantees that your life on "this side" will be even half decent. I, for one, will be teaching my daughter that this world really sucks and the only thing she can trust in is Jehovah. Its the truth but its easy to forget in sunny california where everyone goes to bed with a full stomach and diamonds on their fingers.
I agree. We're aliens in a foreign land just waiting for the real life to arrive.
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