MOH part 4
It's like the Wizard of Oz. What you're looking for is already inside you. So in order to "get" it... you have to give it. In order to experience it you have to share it. In order to feel love you have to love. In order to be happy... you have to Make Others Happy. That's the secret of life. It's not about getting. It's about giving. Knowing what you've got and letting it fill you to overflowing. So it comes out naturally. Happiness, according to dictionary.com, is pleasure about a certain thing. And we know the idea of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." So let's be happy about the pursuit. Let's be happy by making others happy. Let's be happy about the connection we have with each other. Let's work on the dreams of others instead of being selfish and self-centered. We are blessed to be a blessing. Not to be hoarders. What we have been given is too big, and too good, to keep to ourselves. We receive it and release it. We make it real by giving it away. By sharing it. The difference between being self-centered and being Christ-centered is being PEOPLE-centered. We love God by loving people. We don't step over people in order to get ourselves higher. We rise by lifting others up. We're all in this together. Helping you IS helping me. Because we're all members of the same body. Different parts, with different needs, but one body. One New Man. And the New Commandment for the New Man is to love one another as Jesus loves us. Literally to receive and release His love. It's when we focus on ourselves that we get messed up. When we focus on what we (think we) don't have instead of focusing on sharing what we DO have. If I'm too busy focusing on you then I don't have time to be selfish or self-centered. And, listen, I realize there's an aspect of taking care of yourself. Because a lot of the time it feels like if I don't take care of myself no one will. But the truth of the matter is... if I take care of you, and you take care of me, neither one of us has to take care of ourselves. And the deeper truth of the matter is... I'm already taken care of. Daddy's got my back. The Creator of everything loves me and has given all things into my hands. So if I take care of you--even if you don't return the favor--I'm still ok. I'm still taken care of. I'm not scratching your back SO THAT you'll scratch mine. I'm not giving in the hopes of getting. I'm scratching your back because you have an itch. Period. Because you have a need and I can fill it. And the byproduct of that is me feeling awesome. There's no better feeling than doing something for someone with no expectation of them doing something for you. Giving what you've got with no expectation because you're filled to overflowing with it. Making yourself happy (in a sense) by making others happy. Sharing so that you AND I can BOTH experience it!