https://www.uol.com.br/vivabem/noticias/redacao/2021/12/01/a-vida-no-claustro-da-para-encontrar-o-sentido-da-vida-longe-das-pessoas.htm
Thays Lira posed the question in one of her pieces under the "living well" section of a Brazilian newspaper.
I like how she started with questions.
To me, the answer is very simple.
Yes, it is possible, if a person manages to answer the following two questions
1-Who am I?
2-What am I doing here?
Identity & Purpose.
Many people go their entire lives without being able to answer either one of those questions, or worse, never asking those two questions to begin with. And so they end up in a circuitous maze, going to and fro, chasing after the wind their entire lives. In doing so, they feel obligated to engage others as much as possible to try to make sense of it all. People get to the point where they actually NEED people and become DEPENDENT on people in order to function. Sadly, it happens more often than not.
If that spiritual truth isn't enough, from a practical standpoint, people in today's society live life constantly trying to prove something to one another, which has also been proven to be futile since that, too, is an endless, draining cycle.
It's probably even easier, practically speaking, to make sense of life away from people after you spent decades around people and realize, especially in today's day and age, what people are all about. When you find out what people are all about and realize it goes against what you believe in, it's easier to not look back for it is written "whoever puts his hand to the plough and looks back, is not fit for the Kingdom of God". Living life in the pursuit of pleasure, is in direct opposition to living life in the pursuit of God.
I like how Thays ended her piece:
WHen you realize you are not the center of it all, you are able to exercise your freedom.
One of my favorite posts is the one where i reference the Jones', found below.
and the Joneses will be the Joneses. They buy and build, sell and tear down because their desire is to outdo their neighbors who themselves are trying to outdo them. And so goes the same ol' tired process and the same ol' way of thinking...
They do everything they do because they think, they want, and they ARE better than you. Everything revolves around the "who's better"...no matter the subject. And whatever it is you're the best at, is the one subject and/or thing you always want to engage in. O, the futility of life and the rationale that comes with it! We are animals! That's it. Nothing but a bunch of animals. Howbeit that we do the same things a dog does? We eat. They eat. We drink, they drink. We dump, they dump. We piss, they piss. We do the deed, they do deed. And yet man still stands to subdue all creation; a design of God.
The only thing a man gets from being better than the next is a feeding of his pride. Who builds and buys for a reason other than the one Solomon mentions? And even when that takes place, man still finds misery behind the idea that comes from not being the best. Truly, godliness with contentment is great gain and a gift from God. Besides that, man is left to that same old circuitous thinking, a chasing after the wind. When does he ever catch it? Lol....HE NEVER DOES.
The world...an endless race, the everlasting competition, neverending. And we don't get tired of the same game. Who's prettier, who's richer, who's stronger, who's smarter...whoever is prettier isn't stronger, and whoever is richer isn't smarter, and who's wronger? Not the one who has all of these and yet discovers that happiness and contentment are from God, the same one who takes from one and gives to the other who will later give it to yet another. The audacity of man to think God has left HIS creation to chance. HALLELUJAH! Praise be to the Most High God! Maker of heaven and earth! How awesome your deeds and majestic your ways! Everything you do is perfect. Not a thing undone unless you undid it. Creator of earth and every moment in it.
And how dare you o man, question the power and sovereignty of God? How can dust speak? How dare we try to subject God to the laws He has subjected us to? LOL! How dare we try to engage God in matters of earth using arguments of earth?! DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHO GOD IS!? HAVE YOU ANY IDEA!? OF COURSE NOT. That's why He allows us to wander around in our minisculeness...we small. Truly, a heavy burden it is to try and begin fathoming the Most High. We small. Too small. But if we recognize that, He reveals Himself to us, allowing us to become and have more of Him. Is there anything more important or that makes more sense than to be more like God? His eternity drips on us and when it does, all else is irrelevant. WHO CAN ARGUE AGAINST THAT? LOL. What a task my Lord! LOL. How can I begin to come near you in this dogness!? LOL. It's almost exasperating....save the hope YOU give me. I wish that the day of transformation would come fast (UPDATE: AND IT HAS! THANK YOU FATHER! FINALLY! HALLELUJAH!)...but then im left to consider that You still have plans yet unraveling...im almost at a loss...I long for a new body yet I long to see what You have in mind. What a treat to see your plan unfold...Romans 12:2
Does perfection not entail the complete and total leaving of the world? Does it not mean operating in a separate realm? Is it anything less than being engulfed BY and walking IN the Spirit? Does it not include the resentment of others operating in the world? Does it exclude the bitterness of the enemy? Does it not subject the flesh to ITS desires?
Competition is left for those of us who have yet to fully grasp that there is only one winner. We compete because we have not realized that in spite of all our efforts to outdo our neighbors, we ourselves have been outdone by the winner, bickering like losers unaware of who it is all about. We want glory, but it's all His. Get used to it. Get over it. Embrace it. Love it. Live it.
COME WINNER!
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