Living my default, and not seeking His face

"Most lives are lived by default. You are not unhappy. You are just bored and you don’t even realize it"

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Seeking His Face

One thing have I asked of the Lord,
    that will I seek after:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
    all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of the Lord
    and to meditate in his temple.

Psalm 27:4

http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/taste-see-articles/what-does-it-mean-to-seek-the-lord

Take who seriously

" ...take no one seriously except God. You may find that the first person you must be the most critical with, as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself."

~ Oswald Chambers,
in Utmost for His Highest

 

 

Indeed, I do find myself the most inconsistent person in the world.



Thankfully God is better than expected.

Progress

We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.

~ C. S. Lewis in Mere Christianity

All that is gold does not glitter

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien in his fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.

Ender's Game Quote

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. "

I found the Ender's Game film quite simplistic and problematic in logic. Then again, most fiction stories are made simplistic to highlight particular features or issues.
Nevertheless, I like the quote above, which resonates with me.
That said, we're called to love people the way God loves, not only/necessarily in the way people love themselves.

Ray Dalio and the Economy