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what is important to you in this life? I'm really curious to know. What is really important. Deeply, over-archingly, at the root of your existence important.
Friends?
Money?
God?
Your Job?
School?
Time?
Family?
If you're passing by, and you have an answer, I would be really curious to know what it is. Comments, please.
posted by Emily @ 7:10 PM
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The usual list of God, family, etc. comes immediately to mind, but when I consider well my big list of priorities, I think it really all comes down to: JOY and LIGHT. With those in mind, my priorities arrange themselves in the long- and the short-term with greater ease and sense. Sometimes it's hard to tell God "ends" and family "begins" and time from money and learning from pleasure and on and on--they're all so entertwined, or can be. If I focus on pursuing real and lasting joy and drawing more light into my life, then I find I communicate with God more, try to follow a clear Christian path, put more effective and efficient energy into my family relationships, take better care of myself, etc. Joy and light seem to me the spirit of prioroties rather than the letter of priorities. Does that make any sense?
wow. that makes incredible sense. joy and light. light especially. the reason I ask the question is because I feel like lines are beginning to blur around me. Your words offer some much needed insight.
Thanks Lovely!
Geo already said it more beautifully than I could. But because I am greedy, too, I would add LOVE and HOPE. They kind of run into joy and light--the source of all is the same.
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ahhh. Hope is another important one. One of my favorite lines of lyric says "and you would think now hope would be tired, but it's alright".
Thanks, Compulsive Writer
When I think of where God wants me to be, and the people he wants me to serve, I think of my family. And when I'm with my family I feel close to heaven (of course, minus the silly sibling squabbles). So I would have to say that God AND my family is my biggest priority. While on earth there is no place I'd rather be than with my family. And when I leave here I hope that I am with my family for eternity. geo is so wise. It IS hard to tell where God ends and family begins, but I feel like that is the way things are supposed to be. And Joy and Light and Love and Hope, it's all a part of the beautiful package.
P.S. As Stephen King so eloquently wrote in The Shawshenk Redemption, "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."
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