People strive in countless ways to achieve what seems to them to be the ideal good life. Some strive after cash and riches, others strive to become famous, and still others drowned themselves in drugs and sex. Overall these people have the same concept of what the good life is; they all believe that the good life is achieved when they feel fulfilled. Personally, I have never known a person to find fulfillment in cash, cures, sex, or drugs; after one accomplishment has been fulfilled the person is left longing for something more. I pose that fulfillment can be found through relationships. First and foremost a relationship with God will teach a person how to have positive and healthy relationships with other people.
“There is always someone you can count on, and there are a million special moments that can chase the shadows from your face in an instant and will cost you nothing but a few spare minutes” (Greive, 40). A relationship with God teaches one to be content with the blessings that one has been given. Having a constant presence one can rely on and confide in gives a person a sense of community and belonging. One way God fills this need is by having people interact and create community with each other. When a community is built people trust each other, depend on each other, and assist each other with all of their needs, both emotional and physical. The community is build on trust, which we learn by following God’s teachings, and each member of the community supports the others causing each member to be essential. When each person is essential the good life is not a goal or point, it is a way of life.
A community builds precious moments that make each member feel needed and loved. The community is trustworthy and dependable; all it takes is time to build relationships. The good life is a way of life built on God, interdependence, and community, not wealth, fame, sex, or drugs.
“There is always someone you can count on, and there are a million special moments that can chase the shadows from your face in an instant and will cost you nothing but a few spare minutes” (Greive, 40). A relationship with God teaches one to be content with the blessings that one has been given. Having a constant presence one can rely on and confide in gives a person a sense of community and belonging. One way God fills this need is by having people interact and create community with each other. When a community is built people trust each other, depend on each other, and assist each other with all of their needs, both emotional and physical. The community is build on trust, which we learn by following God’s teachings, and each member of the community supports the others causing each member to be essential. When each person is essential the good life is not a goal or point, it is a way of life.
A community builds precious moments that make each member feel needed and loved. The community is trustworthy and dependable; all it takes is time to build relationships. The good life is a way of life built on God, interdependence, and community, not wealth, fame, sex, or drugs.
Bibliography
Greive, Bradley T. Tomorrow: Adventures in an Uncerain World. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel. 40-41.
Greive, Bradley T. Tomorrow: Adventures in an Uncerain World. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel. 40-41.
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Writen for Biblical World View: Ethics: Professor Trevor Bechtel
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