Live On Purpose

If you were to ask my husband to describe me, the term optimist would not come to his mind... however, I must say, I am terribly annoyed by people who suffer from, what I call, the Eeyore complex. You know those people to whom you can say no good thing? The people who cannot relate or emote with others because they are too obsessed blinded by their wounds to open up and accept love or healing? The people who have not yet learned to live outside of themselves and inside the ocean of Grace? Similar to the Eustace Scrubb from Voyage of the Dawn Treader.... You just want them to get to the part where Aslan tells Eustace to wash. And it hurts as he scrubs; but slowly the scales fall away and he becomes himself (his self?)- his true self- the self he was created to be. Not the rotten, ungrateful, dragon-of-a-human being he had become.

We were intended to live outside of ourselves. We are wired to depend on Something/Someone outside of ourselves to direct us... to show us how to be... who to be... rather, Who we ARE- why we exist. Every tangible relationship we have in our lives is purposefully giving us a chance to learn how to live outside of ourselves. To learn how to tap into the fulfillment of living with purpose. May I be so bold as to say that the state of our relationships with others here on earth is a reflection of the state of our relationship with the external God with Whom we were meant to be in union....

Here are some lyrics that I love and have to do with the above thoughts. My interpretations are in purple, things I love are bolded:

"Scared of losing all the time
He wrote it in a letter
He was a friend of mine
He heard you could see your future
Inside a glass of water
The ripples and the rhymes
He asked Will I see heaven in mine? (all too often, we check to see if our future is looking good and pleasing to ourselves... we want to see our glasses half full... or full, even. we want to see that our lot is all we deserve)

That is just the way it was
Nothing could be better
And nothing ever was (we intentionally exist! be grateful.)
Oh they say you could see your future,
Inside a glass of water
With riddles and the rhymes
Will I see heaven in mine?
Oh Oh Oh

Ah Son, don't ask,
Neither how full nor empty
is your glass
Cling to the mast.
Spend your whole life living in the past-
Going nowhere fast (live!) (no really, live in your now- whatever your now may be.)

So he wrote it on the wall
The hollowest of halos
Is no halo at all
Televisions said and past
In figurines and leaders
saying nothing at all
And he chimed stars in heaven aligned
Oh Oh Oh (Ecclesiastes in a nutshell)(only when we live our life with eternal purposes are we really living.)

What are we drinking when were done?
Glasses of water..." (this is your life. regardless of whether or not you see your glass half full or half empty, live.)

~Glass of Water, Coldplay