Do you live your life for the destination, or do you thrive in the journey? As we go through life there are ups and downs. While traveling through these valleys do we find more solace in the trip as a whole or in reaching our checkpoints?It’s a question I have often thought about but never asked, not even of myself. Never thinking about it before I don’t really have an intelligent answer for you.
I do understand the destination point of view. Reaching a goal can be so rewarding that you forget the struggles to get there. You have made it through all of the valleys through all of the bad and you have gotten exactly what you wanted. How many times do we put too much stake into the destination? How many of us tie our happiness to the destination? When you tie your happiness to a destination and you reach that checkpoint, what happens when it’s not what you want? Maybe it’s the next destination, maybe it’s the next job, maybe it’s the next house, maybe it’s the next love.
I also can sympathize with the journey people. Sometimes just persevering through the journey is enough to make you feel like a super hero. When the ups and downs are all that you know you manage to find peace and joy in the cycle. What if when we are living for the journey we lose sight of our destination? What if we overlook our goal living in the day to day? What happens if we lose our way to God living for the journey? Maybe we tie our happiness to the journey and don’t realize what God has called us to, because we choose to walk right by it.
I can see that I am more of a journey guy. I am so good at sorrow, so good at struggle, that sometimes I find myself happy in the valleys. This also lends to the fact that I rarely feel like I deserve any good or expect any good to come my way. I often overlook blessings with my head down trudging through the valley.
What if we all realized that the happiness we find in the destination or the joy we find in the journey are always short lived because we are manufacturing it? How much happier do you think we would be if we realized our joy comes from Jesus who lives in our heart? Our happiness comes from within us not with or without something or someone.
Find your happiness inside, celebrate your blessings you found in the valley, and praise the joy in your destination, but never overlook your calling. Today love someone because you were first loved.
I love you.
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