This Sunday morning I listened to Music and The Spoken Word to have a change from my intensive-writing-instruction weekend and turn my mind to things of a more spiritual nature. Loved... LOVED, this message. So perfect for what I'm sorting out right now.
Doing In Order To Become (April 22, 2018)
Life is full of important things to do. But if we let those to-do’s fill up our lives, we may be missing something essential about what it means to be human. After all, as it is often said, we are human beings, not human doings. In other words, life is more about who we are becoming through our experiences—not just what we’re doing with our time. So while it’s helpful to plan what we are going to do each day, we might also consider what we are going to become each day. How might the person we are at the end of the day be a little different from the person we were at the beginning?
Doing In Order To Become (April 22, 2018)
Life is full of important things to do. But if we let those to-do’s fill up our lives, we may be missing something essential about what it means to be human. After all, as it is often said, we are human beings, not human doings. In other words, life is more about who we are becoming through our experiences—not just what we’re doing with our time. So while it’s helpful to plan what we are going to do each day, we might also consider what we are going to become each day. How might the person we are at the end of the day be a little different from the person we were at the beginning?
Becoming a truly good person demands more of us than merely checking items off a to-do list. However, it also has a lot to do with what we choose to do. ... It’s much easier to go with the flow, reacting without much thought to whatever comes our way, but the flow usually doesn’t lead where we really want to go.
A middle-aged man, busy with many things to do, realized that he wasn’t becoming what he wanted to be. ... So with sincere desires and diligent efforts, he focused on becoming a better person. It’s not that he stopped doing; it’s just that his doing now had a purpose: ...—his doing led to becoming. And that changed his life.
No matter how much we might need to accomplish, life was never meant to be a list of tasks. We were created to become something greater than what we now are. And the things we choose to do can lift us to that goal. This is what it means to be a human being.
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