Travels through Life by Millie Jackson

HOUSE

Today I passed this house I used to live in. It seems so different now. There were no flowers that used to grow there, it seems that life doesn't live there anymore. No one who cares about it. It seems to me to be a place that's just a house. I always thought houses had character like the person that lived there. I guess the person who lives there now doesn't love flowers. That's sad because to me they are God's creation. I guess we all look at things different in life. We all have to travel our own paths, some are way ahead of the others on that path. Some of us have learned and still are learning what life is about. The things of this world can't help us in the end. They can't make it right with God. I can see us now, saying "God, I really needed this, I needed it to make me happy." Or because someone else had one and I deserve one too.

I forgot about you and what you wanted us to do. I'll do it next time, after I get one more thing. Then we wake up one morning and find that the things we wanted so badly didn't make us happy after all. We go hunting for other things, never knowing the thing we were searching for was there all along. We were so busy trying to get the things in this world that we thought could make us happy. Satan won't let us see that he leads us to believe that the things of this world will make us happy. We forget when he offered the whole world to Christ, he turned it down and told him to get behind him. He knew in the end that worldly things would not make him happy, that there was a greater reward waiting for him, not the worldly things. That life is about loving our self and our fellow man, to be compassionate and loving to each other and God.

Yes, we all have to travel that path in life to learn what is important. I, myself one day would love to see a world where flowers bloom and animals run free. Not afraid of men and men not afraid of them. Where God will take the fear of men out of them and the lions will lay down with the lamb. Where people will love and care for each other. I know that day will come and God has promised us that. Will we be ready? Or will we try to con our way and try to explain that we thought we were doing it right? God can't be conned. He sees all and in the end knows why we did it. For our own selfish wants.

I find my soul hungering for that place where you can finally find contentment, that's what our soul is hungry for. But not for things of this world. You can finally find contentment, that's what our soul is hungry for, not the things of this world. He knows where we need to go even if we don't. It's in God's hands that we should stay.