To be deemed inspiring people normally need to go through something. They must experience some trials or be abandoned and have nothing left to hold onto. I’ve heard a lot of truly encouraging stories of people who endure life’s hardship but still manage to hold on. They embrace hope and cling to it for all it’s worth. The bottom line is, these people needed something. They were are at a point in their life where they could not do it on their own so they had to make a choice, either have faith in something bigger or simply give up.
Almost all inspirational people choose to hope in something, or someone, like God.
I live in a world where I don’t need God. I wake up with a roof over my head, I have food in the pantry, a family that supports, loves, and encourages me. Friends who invest into my life, help me out, and tell me I’m great. I have books to fill my idle hours, and opportunities to further my success in life. I don’t need God and in turn I often don’t remember him. I don’t use my life in a purposeful way to reflect my love for God. I don’t integrate him in all my decisions, nor do I look to him very often for direction or guidance. (Unless of course things get rough.) I have a hard time loving God.
Who then do I find even more inspirational? People like me who don’t need God. They live their lives blessed and successful. They have all the distractions, opportunities, and potential to be anything they want to be. Life is an easy and abundant walk where God is not needed but instead of being forgotten, he is still chosen. I love seeing people who choose God not out of their hopelessness, or from a desperate plea, but out of thanksgiving and gratitude. Where life could be just as wonderful without God, but they choose to make him a part of it anyways.
Those people are astounding. They know they have something good and won’t let it go.
Posted by thejuniperjar on December 7, 2010 at 3:50 pm
i like the way you think. thanks for sharing. you do my heart good, you do.