One of Lifes Questions

How is it that the ones you love the most are the ones that cause us the most pain?

Refrigerator Art

Within all of us we are truely great...so why do we second guess ourselves? Why do we feel the need to make our life better with material things? Why do we do things that please only ourselves? Our world has set such a standard for living that we get caught up in all of its hype instead of focusing on our souls and those souls around us.

At church on Suday, the Chaplain made this point and he gave an example that really touched me. "Life is like refrigerator art"...when a child gives you a simple piece of paper with a simple drawing that you can not make out or have no clue what the drawing might be, you still hang it on the refrigerator. Why? Becuase of our DESIRE TO PLEASE the child.

At first, I thought how would I be truely happy if I am the one doing the pleasing? What I later realized is that it starts with only one person...if I "hang the art" to please someone, they will grow to please others (and myself) in similar ways. Happiness is catchy. If we all lived our lives with the desire to please others, we would find ourselves surrounded by happy people.

Life is catchy, pass it on!