Alas, my friends, we find ourselves badgering to and fro on an even worse situation: we think that our actions aren’t “good enough”. “Enough”, by Merriam and Webster, means “sufficient”. “Sufficient”, on the other hand, is defined as “adequate to accomplish a purpose or meet a need”. Look at these words: “adequate”, “accomplish”, “purpose”, “need”. These words intimate weight: they give a glimpse of what we are looking at in today’s society.
Words are powerful. They can literally make-or break- everything in this world. In fact, words created the world! They can build nations –and tear them-, force people to war- or peace-, touch hearts, soften, harden, tighten, and give generously. Words were meant to breathe new life in us: new change, new opportunities, new levels that extend to Heaven and back.
But how unfortunate is is that people don’t know how to use words.
It’s not hard to find that we have driven us to push through our boundaries. (Not that this is a bad thing-in fact, I sure love me some challenges!) But the things that the world is pushing through our brains are starting to become more and more outlandish. Too outlandish, indeed, to realize the damage we are making to our future-and ourselves.
Am I going to starve to death in order to look good in a pair of jeans, or walk on runways in Milan or Paris? Am I going to inject steroids-legal or illegal- in my body, just so that I can become the greatest sports player ever? Am I going to live my way through power? Am I going to have sex with half the women in the world, just so that I can prove myself as a playboy? Or am I going to sell my sould to the Devil so that my life can go deliberately south?
Friends, this is now way to live! I will not risk my life, or step on someone else’s-just to lose my soul in the end? I will not waste my life in such a way; this is an outrage!
Men, who told you that you can profit from evil? Women, who told you that you must lose your dignity in order to become popular? Children, who told you must lose your innocence in order to be cool? Elderly, who told you, “I will abandon you?” Lord knows that this generation is sad; if we keep this up, ¡ay de los que vivan en el mañana! Who will say, “Hello”, to someone else? Who told you that you can’t be successful? Who told you that you have to follow what man says? Who told you that you are worth nothing? Who told you those lies? I will be damned to think that someone fed you such horrible, horrible lies.
I am outraged to see that people point fingers at each other like nobody’s business. I am sick of being treated like a nobody-not because they tell me, but because they ignore me. Is this the world we are living in? I know how powerless we may feel against the things that happen in our daily life. I know sometimes things don’t work out the way we expect it to be. I know that dreams seem so far ahead, and that sometimes, we feel our efforts aren’t even good enough to make a change. But allow me to tell you something…
Get up and eat- you’ve got a long journey ahead of you.
And as for me, don’t worry; I’m going where the wind is blowing. I know that, for today, I have done enough. Tomorrow, God will have something new for me to do. Not because I’m the best that I could do, but the best in me is yet to come.
May He bless you and keep you.
May His face shine on you and be gracious to you.
And may He turn His face toward you and give you peace.
Happy New Year. And may the Lord bless you with grace, hope…and passion.