What are you looking for?
Take a minute and do the ABCs of what people are looking for: Adventure, Beauty, Courage, Direction, Encouragement, Family… Always looking for something. Even the most obscure letter cannot resist our efforts…
God, Honor, Integrity, Joy, Knowledge, Love… We search for noble things. Things that make a difference. Things that last. Things which bring us no shame. Things worth fighting for.
Money, Normalcy, Opportunities, Peace and Quiet… Then there are the less noble things. A certain excitement, pleasure or even exercise of power. Things that energize us for a moment, yet bring us no closer to the person we want to be.
Relationships, Sex, Time, Understanding, Virtue… Perhaps we can learn who people are by examining what they are searching for. If we could know the desire of the heart (even our own heart), would we not also know the person, really know what’s in a man, know who s/he is?
Wealth, Youth, Zeal… There. It’s finished. The question, “What are you looking for” turns out to be less innocent than we may have thought.
BTW, to those who are a bit more perceptive… What about X? Too easy… It marks the spot on the weathered parchment for that long, sought-after treasure.
Have you found it yet?
God, Honor, Integrity, Joy, Knowledge, Love… We search for noble things. Things that make a difference. Things that last. Things which bring us no shame. Things worth fighting for.
Money, Normalcy, Opportunities, Peace and Quiet… Then there are the less noble things. A certain excitement, pleasure or even exercise of power. Things that energize us for a moment, yet bring us no closer to the person we want to be.
Relationships, Sex, Time, Understanding, Virtue… Perhaps we can learn who people are by examining what they are searching for. If we could know the desire of the heart (even our own heart), would we not also know the person, really know what’s in a man, know who s/he is?
Wealth, Youth, Zeal… There. It’s finished. The question, “What are you looking for” turns out to be less innocent than we may have thought.
BTW, to those who are a bit more perceptive… What about X? Too easy… It marks the spot on the weathered parchment for that long, sought-after treasure.
Have you found it yet?
June 6th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
It’s so easy to substitute what we want for who we want to be. Really, really good stuff.
June 6th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Very clever post!
June 6th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Be honest Brady, did you come up with these last two blogs on your own? They are very clever and thought provoking. That’s not to say you are not clever, I just like to know who the author is.