You would be giving yourself all sorts of headache if you pre-occupy yourself with the idea of trying to figure out life as a whole. In actual fact, life is not meant for you to figure out, it is meant to be lived based on the revealed will of Him who kept you here - and that is done on a step by step basis. If you want a full package of what lies ahead of you all at once, you won't get it.
Many of us enter life with preconceived idea what our parents told us, what we see in our immediate environment and what our friends tell us. On the basis of this small narrowed idea, we go out with some kind of ambitious boldness and feel like the world and life is all about the "little" we know. We argue about issues only from the perspective of what we know and without desiring to learn from the perspective of others who are not from our own end of the globe, we end up making a fool of ourselves and making very critical mistakes in decisions that we make.
It is in this vein that I have made up my mind to receive gifts from life on the basis of every experience I have because every season and experience or challenge comes with it it a gift that is so valuable that can't be received from any other medium. As I pondered over this, I stumbled on a movie that confirmed this concept of gifts of life... and I want to share with you some of these gifts:
1. The Gift of Work
Life itself operates and revolves around work. If things must work in your life, you must get down to work. If you don't, nothing gets done.
2. The Gift of Money
We must learn how to handle money. We must be masters of money and not slaves to it. It should be realized that money is not the ultimate in life and we must not make it so. Learning to give value we are paid for is and should always be the ultimate.
3. The Gift of Friends
It is unfortunate that true friends rarely exist. What we have in excess are acquaintances who relate only on the basis of how convenient it s for them. When a relationship demands responsibility and becomes costly, people begin to shift base. We tend to get involved with people on the basis of what we can get from them and not what we can give. True friends are hard to find but we must make them. Go out and be a true friend to someone. If such people have a different mind, they might be changed when they see the unselfish nature we display.
4. The Gift of Love
Everyone wants to be loved and to love. One way or the other, we have narrowed love to romance. It is far beyond that. Love is the essence of God. Love is about sharing your life with people. In it is the virtue of giving and being spent for someone whether they are deserving of it or not. Some kind of warning here though: to love is not to commit suicide either. Rewards are not given for suicide. Balance is applicable.
5. The Gift of Problems
In life we face all kinds of challenges. There are problems everywhere. People are facing them daily. Problems are not palatable. Nobody wants to face them but they are gifts. We learn from them. When we overcome, we become better people. Welcome them as gifts.
These are some of the few gifts of life that can make us better people and cause us to life more fulfilled life. Maturity comes when we welcome these gifts and use them.
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