This post is Day 6 in a series of seven straight days of blogging
"Everything is so amazing, and nobody is happy..."
A few weeks ago I came across this video of comedian Louis CK that I believe is really worth checking out:
There are so many little things here that can drive me crazy about living in Tegucigalpa: It get's dark at 6:30PM, I can't drink the water out of the tap, EVERYTHING starts late, relying on public transportation can be a pain, and did I mention that I had to be at school at 6AM this morning for the Spelling Bee... ON A SATURDAY?!?!?!? The temptation can be to grow negative at times. I spend most of my time with other teachers and the good Lord knows that teachers can always find something to complain about. We tend to focus on long hours and little pay during the school year, but grow curiously silent as we spend late June to August on the beach. I'll be the first to admit that I am often ungrateful.
I wonder what God thinks about our ungratefulness. I know as a teacher, sometimes I will work for hours and hours to get a lesson prepared for school. I want to make my lessons interesting, relevant... I want them to MATTER to my students. But then the school day will come, the students will be tired and the lesson will fall apart before my eyes:
- This is boring Mister. Can we go outside?
I kind of think that God must feel the same way. He so desperately loves us that He has given us life to be lived abundantly. But instead... we complain. We keep searching for happiness, fulfillment and significance everywhere except the Source that created them all. And THEN, when we don't feel any of those things, we feel cheated by life. Like somehow or another we are entitled to feel non-stop happiness all of the time in whatever place we decide to go looking for it.
Today as I stood on a hill above the city of Tegucigalpa I was reminded of just how blessed I truly am. Maybe it had less to do with the view of the city itself and more to do with where I have been, where I am going, and who I was with. God has been so faithful and at that moment I was extremely grateful just.... to be.
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At an international teaching conference I went to last summer, they told us about a study that noted the incredible difference gratefulness made on a person's spiritual life and their life in general. If I find the study, I'll pass it along. It's something that has stuck with me a lot this year.
ReplyDeleteThanks Cristy! Please do pass that along
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