We are not designed to live life to get results. Life is not a result. Life is living how we are designed to nourish our whole person every day with the truth, beauty, dreams, exercise, passions, good thoughts, physical nutrients and love.
If we deprive the spirit, heart, mind or body to get a specific result, then we will make up for that deprivation somewhere, somehow and someway.
Trying to just get results force us to live in contradictions and deny satisfying our basic needs.
Think about it-
The mind is starving for truth and we try to fill it up with and more useless information. The body is starving for nutrients and we try to fill it up with junk food. The heart is starving to be heard and we ignore it. The spirit is starving to be known and accepted. Yet, we stay in places and online where we can never be known.
But…
What have been the real results of living to get results? We are constantly filling ourselves up but we’re always hungry. We are more connected but we’re completely disconnected. We are full of information but we are more confused than ever. We work harder but we still don’t have enough. Our kids are involved in more activities but they still don’t know who they are or what to do. We are busier and more entertained than any time in history and we are bored out of our minds. We know more about more people and we don’t know them at all. We call more people friends but we are lonely for friendship. We have more drugs and healthcare but we are 88% of us have diet-related disease and sickness.
We have bigger houses, larger neighborhoods, massive churches and less community. We have more diets and exercise gyms but we have epidemic rates of obesity. We have more grocery stores and less local organic foods; more time to talk and less real conversation; more knowledge and less wisdom; more drinking and less real celebration; more religion and less hope, truth and love; more things to make us happy and less joy; more politics and greater divisions of wealth, power, resources and relationships; more schools and less learning; more platforms to communicate and yet no one hears our voice; more room to create and less creativity. We have so much more of what we want but we have so much less of what we need.
WHY?
Because we are so busy living to get bigger and better results to live bigger and better lives that we have denied nourishing our hearts, mind, bodies, spirits and relationships. Results don’t fill us up with truth, love, hope, joy and peace. We may love results but they cannot love us back. It’s time for a different way. It’s time for us to remember how who we are and how we are designed to be healthy, whole, holy and human, and not be used to get a result.
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