Axioms…from my perspective

i dedicate thursdays to giving some of my personal life axioms…truth that, from my perspective, is self-evident. sometimes practical. sometimes philosophical. sometimes whimsical. but truth, no less.

“be content with what you have.”

let enough be enough.

the pursuit of stuff will control you.  we live in a culture that defines personal worth by what you have…your symbols of success.  all of us, to some degree, have bought into it.  and if you don’t aggressively fight it with all you’re worth (sorry for the pun), you’ll lose.  you’ll just lose.

nice things are not evil.  there is nothing inherently wrong with more expensive things.  i have some.

it’s just that there is an amazing freedom in living a simple life and being content with what you have, rather than living in a constant state of pursuing bigger, better, faster, newer, or nicer.  we just have to let go of the idea that better stuff equals better life.

there is great joy in being able to enjoy what we already have and learning to accept the limitations of our situations.  one of the greatest lessons i have ever learned (and continue to learn on deeper and deeper levels) is to let god be the provider of more when he wants to, and not necessarily when i want to.  unfortunately, this is a discipline that most of us know very little about…

more than anything else, if we are constantly looking to make our own lives better, more comfortable, more lavish, or more symbolically successful, we will never be able to truly experience jesus being enough.  it will be nothing more than empty words to a song we sing.