Clearing my head as I took a walk today (good for the body and the soul) in the rather mild winter weather I had some "Jesus" existential questions circling around my spirit: what am I doing? What are my motives to what I do? Am I following Love/Jesus?
Some events in my life have forced me to look at the grander view of things. I see I am part of something immensely bigger than myself. Part of this is also the fault of reading "Jesus for President" by Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw. The last section is all about what the praxis (the practical life) side of being a Christian might look like and he suggests things like finding ways creative ways to use renewable resources, being pacifist, etc. So these questions did not come uninitiated. The truth is a lot of my life feels very superficial but there must be a deeper meaning behind what I'm doing or I am doing it in vain. I simple cannot afford to live my life in a trite way. I need to seek God with every bit of my being and that means that the questions: What am I doing and why? as well as Am I following Jesus with this? are meant to be asked over and over again.
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