His Beautiful Mess

November 10, 2018    I discovered something recently..the secret to really living.  I see your ears perk up, you sit up straight, eyes now focused.  It's really simple honestly. Love God. Love people. Simply put.  We try to overanalyze and complicate living with worry, doubt, fear, you name it.  But think about it, if you live with the singular goal of making God's name great and loving others well, that's simply it. That's how we're designed. But the question is if this really is the secret, how come I'm not experiencing life as it should be? Robert McGee in the Search for Significance shares, " Perhaps we feel that our situation is normal and that experiencing loneliness, hurt, and anger is all there is to life. Perhaps we want to be good people and we think that good people don't experience problems so we deny our emotions. We all develop elaborate defense mechanisms to block pain and gain significance. We suppress emotions; we are compulsive pe...