Where is the Love?

"..All you need is love.."

So I am noticing a great big trend in society as I roam this great big earth...people are just not happy!!!

I am not really sure I understand at all, and yet I at the same time I understand completely. I was at the bookstore today and I was going to check out in line. There was a woman that seemed to be in front of me and since there were multiple cashiers i could not be sure. Well so i asked her if she was in line and she said umm...yes i am, and when the cashier said next person in line I said, oh well it is you, pointing to the woman, and then the cashier said, oh no it is you, looking at me. Then i said, no i think this woman was before me and the cashier stated again, no ma'am it is you.

So as I went to the register and was checking out the other woman, whom I was not really sure was in line or not passed behind me. I smiled to myself thinking, yeah know, I think that lady just may leave some parting words for the woman behind the register. Well as I smiled to myself she was at the exit door, turned around and said and I quote, "smile all you want, but I was next in line." What? What was that? I looked at the lady at the register and just said, ummm, i am not sure what just happened. She explained to me that I was really next etc. Then I said, wow, some people have to comment on everything. She responded by saying, well some people are just miserable and unhappy.

This made me sad. Sad to think that millions and millions of people are walking around this great big earth completely miserable. There is so much amazingness and beauty in this life. There is so many joys to be had. So why are people so miserable? BECAUSE THEY CHOOSE TO BE. Now maybe that is a bold statement to make because essentially i don't know where people are coming from and what people have been through, but i do know where i have come from and what I have been through and what I have come to find is that if I live in the problem I remain a victim. If I live in solution I can live in the freedom of God's will for me and my life in the present moment, where grace can only be found.

People manufacture there own misery all day and night. Now I am not speaking of those who have serious psychological problems. I am speaking of people who feel the need to make everyone else's life miserable because there life is not going as they PLANNED it would. Oh ok, so now we see the real misery of life, unmet expectations!

I have heard it said that an expectation is a premeditated resentment. Simply put, i think. So when someone does not meet my needs the way I think they should then they are officially not a good friend, they have wronged me, they have treated me unfairly etc. Is it that they wronged me, or that I expected something out of them that they could never meet in the first place. Gosh I use to do that so much. Expect the world from everyone and everything, and then play the victim when my world fell apart and they fell short of what I expected from them.

It's interesting to see today in life that, this life is not forever nor is it meant to be for myself. This life is meant to be a means to get to our true home, heaven. The cool part is that God is so awesome that He wants us to help each other get there as well. We must love each other to heaven. How do we do that? We simply love. We can't do a lot of that when we remain miserable. We need to look at our stuff, the stuff that weighs us down (our brokenness, hurts, pains etc.) and start walking through it. This is the stuff that builds stamina in each and every one us. God did not give us this stuff so that we can remain in it, and be miserable. He gave us this stuff so that we can run to him and ask him to use it to transform us into whatever He longs for us to be. He needs to burn all the impurities off through the fire of His love so that we can become vessels of His love and channels of His grace. If we do not allow ourselves to be emptied of this stuff, there can be no room for God, who is LOVE HIMSELF.

It's awesome because once we have experienced God's love through the trial we have been given to face, God then allows us the opportunity to love others afflicted with the same pain. And the more we give out what we have been given, we in turn get to keep. So essentially, we are truly called to love each other so as to heal each other and draw each other closer to Christ.