Limiting Ourselves is Good, Part 1 (TMF:2389)
Thursday, July 04, 2024
Peace to Live By: Limiting Ourselves is Good, Part 1 (TMF:2389) - Daniel Litton
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In American society, I don’t think a lot of us consider limiting ourselves when thinking about what increases our happiness. We think, “We need to get more, more, more!” Getting more seems to be a lot of people’s solution to a lack of happiness, right? I mean think about it. If we aren’t happy with the money we make, we think we need to get more money. Everybody wants more money. Or consider relationships. People want to be friends with everyone, to increase the number of their friends across the board. Social media works to accomplish this goal. Or, we believe that what we have isn’t new and interesting anymore, so buying something new then is the solution, right? Jesus said to beware of this kind of mindset. If we gain more and more relationships, that is more and more people we have to talk to and tend to. People we have to grow toward. If we are doing that, we are spreading ourselves a mile wide and an inch deep, as the saying goes. We aren’t going to be able to develop lasting, deep relationships because we simply don’t have the time. We’ve got more and more people to talk to.