Comments on: More on Getting Real http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2007/more-on-getting-real Religion and spirituality from a Unitarian Universalist perspective Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:59:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Shelby http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2007/more-on-getting-real#comment-2606 Shelby Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:52:13 +0000 http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2007/more-on-getting-real#comment-2606 "I for one resolve to laugh more, obsess less about things I cannot change, and focus on the things that are really important like family and community." -- Amen to that! “I for one resolve to laugh more, obsess less about things I cannot change, and focus on the things that are really important like family and community.” — Amen to that!

]]> By: Comrade Kevin http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2007/more-on-getting-real#comment-2588 Comrade Kevin Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:28:20 +0000 http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2007/more-on-getting-real#comment-2588 The oldest cliche in the book is to quote what Thoreau famously said: "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." We can be idealistic and put our activist hats on: pointing fingers, levying blame, and decrying this fact and we might feel better for the short term. But in the long term, the only people we can really change are ourselves. I worry sometimes about the fact that opiates have become the religion of the masses. Many of us believe that we have a right to feel good all the time. That's totally unrealistic. As the Bible teaches, there is a season to everything and with life will come pain. Life will sometimes be good, but it will never be fair. And having said that, I've come to the point that I'm in control of the way I respond to the world. It can be a very bad place or a very good place. And I for one resolve to laugh more, obsess less about things I cannot change, and focus on the things that are really important like family and community. The oldest cliche in the book is to quote what Thoreau famously said: “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

We can be idealistic and put our activist hats on: pointing fingers, levying blame, and decrying this fact and we might feel better for the short term. But in the long term, the only people we can really change are ourselves.

I worry sometimes about the fact that opiates have become the religion of the masses. Many of us believe that we have a right to feel good all the time. That’s totally unrealistic. As the Bible teaches, there is a season to everything and with life will come pain.

Life will sometimes be good, but it will never be fair.

And having said that, I’ve come to the point that I’m in control of the way I respond to the world. It can be a very bad place or a very good place. And I for one resolve to laugh more, obsess less about things I cannot change, and focus on the things that are really important like family and community.

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