- a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; -
Seek and you will find. Have you ever noticed it’s that easy?
Yeah, me neither. Then again, the promise never came with a timeline.
Let’s jump in. What do you seek for? Well, ask another question.
What do you desire?
The answer may make you feel sensuous, noble, or disappointed with yourself. An honest answer tells you where you’re aiming.
We are creatures bound to seeking. Why? Because we perpetually find ourselves and our resources lacking.
When you’re hungry, how much control do you have over that desire? Does it not propel you along, bending you to “its” will?
Well, that which we seek has a similar effect. If aimed at the good, then we are possessed by a longing to benefit ourselves and others.
When we find that which is good, it’s imperative that we keep or use it.
Have you found a good place to live for you and your family? Act in such a way to preserve it. Does your career fill you with purpose? Make the company or yourself profitable honestly.
Perhaps what you need to find is an idea, a behavior, or wisdom. How do you keep it once you find it?
Live it out in front of others desperately, write it down, pray it, think about it. Lose at your own peril.
What about those things we want or have that hinder ourselves, hurt others, or fuel hatred?
“I can’t believe she said that to me. I’ve got to find a way to make her pay.”
Find is a good word to know what we are seeking. As I’ve said, this is an aim. It’s a way in which you’re directing your time, energy, and focus.
Sometimes we seek after and keep things that are harmful to us and others. Why? We desire to do so.
If that is your desire, then what possess you? Is it not destruction?
What you have must be cast away. It would have been better while you were seeking to have lost the desire to find it. Now you must do the hard work of removing it from your life.
How can that be done? You must have a new aim.
What should you aim at? Why even Disney knows.
Your aim is to be on the heavens. They elevate you because they focus, in the most mundane way, you on the Transcendent.
We know that which is higher is beyond our understanding, something separate and foreign.
To make that your aim and what you seek is to decide to live in way that invites transcendence into your daily life.
It’s the explicit request for the world to become less like itself and become one we do not know, only dream of.
Our Father called it the Kingdom; may it come.