Bliss

It's late spring!  Can you believe it?  We're barreling at break-neck speed toward Summer...
Time for back-yard barbecue's, bike rides, picnics, camping, swimming...all that fun stuff we spent countless hours doing as kids.


Well, o.k., maybe you're still a kid and that's all you do during the summer months.
But as an adult, the majority of my awake time is spent working...I know, it sounds lame, right?
But, it's all a matter of perspective.  Whatchu talking 'bout?  


I'm talking about doing diligently, the things we've been given/called to do.


As a kid your primary focus is recreation...what can I do that will be the most fun, and how much fun can I pack in to one 24hour period?
When you "grow up", your focus drifts toward things like; a career path, achieving success, acquiring those things we, as a culture, deem important:
Car, house, wife/husband, kids, stuff...


When you grow up and take on responsibility, your focus tends to shift from the fun, to the necessary.  What do I "have" to do today in order to satisfy the demands placed upon me or that I've placed upon myself?


Fun becomes a luxury that we see somewhere out there in the nebulous recesses of our minds...it gets relegated to small windows of opportunity, like, vacations and days off.


Why is that?  Why can't we have fun or why have we chosen to deny ourselves the opportunity for fun?  Why do we, as adults, let ourselves sour beneath the burdens we so foolishly place upon our own shoulders?


Here's my brief thought in response to my own questions... Fun is what you make it.  If you've made choices that have stolen the fun from your life, what do you need to do to bring the joy back?
What decisions need to be made to keep you from the bitter path?
Change of perspective?  Attitude adjustment?  
It's like this; a guy by the name of Paul, wrote a letter to a group of people living in Rome.  
In his letter he said, "So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life - your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life - and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. 2 Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you."
He goes on to say that whatever we are gifted to do, we need to do it cheerfully and for the benefit of others.  This Paul was quite a guy...
So, with God's help, it's totally possible to find the joy in our daily living...to bring the fun back.  Not every single moment will be guaranteed fun, because, life is hard.  
But, if we will trust God with our lives, allowing Him to give us a proper perspective on life and the work we do...He will help us bring the fun back.  
Let God bring the best out of you!