IT’S unfortunate that some people are not happy with their
lives. They feel they have been short-changed, exerting a lot of
effort with little return as a reward. Some feel that they are unlucky
in life since they seem to have failed to achieve their dreams. Others
feel they were not given the chance to make full use of their talents
or what they consider is their worth.
Many people seem to be sad, frustrated, disappointed,
disgruntled. Some have lapsed into a state of depression. The cases of
mental illness have grown, and those of suicide are getting common.
It’s understandable that they feel that way. We are human
and we always get affected by anything that goes against our liking,
our desires and dreams. But it’s also human for us to learn to be
above all these possible scenarios in life, since we all know that
life is some kind of drama with factors, circumstances and
developments that are beyond our control.
And yet we should not forget that God is always in control
of things. If we could only have a strong and tight relationship with
God, we know that everything serves a purpose and that everything is
actually taken care of already by him. We should not worry. Or rather,
we should not persist in worrying. The happy ending of our life is
already guaranteed as long as we are with God!
What we have to do is to simply be sport and game in life.
We do all that we can, we try our best to win, to achieve, to conquer
whatever is the issue, challenge or trial. But we know that in a game
or race, we sometimes lose. We may even lose many times, or still even
always.
Yet if we have the correct frame of mind, we know that
what is proper for us is just to move on, while trying to learn from
our mistakes. Our defects, limitations, frustrations, and even our
sins and falls are great teachers of values and virtues that we need
to develop. And if we have Christian faith, we know that these
negative elements in our life can strongly attract God’s attention,
mercy and care for us.
But before anything else, we should indeed count our
blessings that we often take for granted. Imagine all these: God has
given us the great gift of life, and together with it are our many
endowments: our intelligence, our will, our memory and imagination,
our talents.
More importantly, he has given us the gifts of faith, hope
and charity. And most especially, he has given us grace and the
guarantee of our salvation, as long as we also do our part.
These blessings should never be lost in our mind. They
should trigger in us the constant urge to be thankful and to
correspond to all these goodness with all our best efforts. When
doubts, fears, worry, anxiety would come our way, we should just get
back to these wonderful truths of our faith to bring us back to our
proper state of joy and peace in our life.
When we are not happy and at peace, we have to admit that
we have a problem for which we have to find a solution. And the best
and ultimate solution is the faith in God’s goodness, wisdom and
mercy. We, of course, have to look for the human solutions, but we
should remember that there are problems that humanly speaking cannot
be solved anymore. We just have to learn to let go and move on.
Thus, we also have to develop the virtues of patience,
fortitude and optimism. Let’s remember that when we are made to
suffer, we should avoid suffering alone. We have to suffer together
with Christ, and that suffering of ours would acquire tremendous
benefits for all of us!
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