Travels through Life by Millie Jackson

SOUL

Our lives, we sell our soul for things in this world. Later we find that it didn't make us happy after all. We look for so much in this world that we think will make us happy. If we can just get it we work our self to death or we take it from someone because we just got to have it. It can be a person or power or house or a new car. For awhile it makes us happy. But in the end it wasn't what our soul was searching for.

We don't need the things of this world to make us happy. They are here to help us live in this world, and nothing else. We are not part of this world. Why do we work so hard for things that we think will make us happy? Our soul is longing for a place that only God can provide for us. In our heart we know within us that this world as nothing to offer and we will never find what we are looking for to make us happy. So many of us sell our souls for so little. The Devil can make it look so right to us and so good and we sell our souls because we think it will make us happy.

He promised us a world of beauty. God promised us a world of beauty and peace and contentment. The things of this world won't make us happy, but only serving Him can bring us true happiness. He made us and He knows what our souls are hungry for. He doesn't lie. It's so sad that we go in search of things and people to make us happy. If we just stop and look around us, we already have it. He gave it to us long ago. All we need is God's love. He gave His word that He would provide for us. Who do we believe, God or Man? Sometimes it's so easy to believe Satan. Sometimes Man believes Satan that he overlook God, but He was the one that knew what we needed and made us and loved us. We travel through life hunting for things to make us happy and forget our problems in life. If we listened to God it wouldn't be so hard.

We need so little in this world, food, clothing, and shelter. He promised us that. We shouldn't worry about tomorrow, that it may never come. Take one hour at a time and put it in His hands and He knows what we need before we even ask. His hands are bigger than ours and His will be done. We shouldn't change to suit Man, but change to suit God. He knows what's best for us and what will make us happy. Our lives belong to Him. Until we realize that we will always be hunting something that we think will make us happy, it won't. That's the lesson all of us has to learn in life.

Tonight I have to realize that we all have to sooner or later deal with our past, and the mistakes we made and then realize what has really happened to us; at the time we couldn't see what was happening. We were too close to the problem and couldn't understand what was going on. And knowing something was not right, coming to find out that the one person we thought we could depend on wasn't there for us when we needed help. They never could understand that there was too much being put on our shoulders. They weren't willing to take some of the load off of us, too busy thinking of their self. It seems that some people can't have compassion for others if when they are the one who put the pressure on people.

When you really care about a person you take on their problems too. But if it's a one way street one person can become depressed and sick. Nobody has the right to do that to another person. Not showing love is showing how selfish a person really is. When one person is always the caregiver and the other is always thinking of his wants and needs. That's a very cruel person. He will always blame someone else, never taking or admitting that it's his fault. That he's always supposed to get what he wants and needs and it doesn't matter about the other individual.

Until he begins to know and understand the hurt that he causes with his self-interest he will never know how much he has hurt people that he claims to love. That the people would have been there for him he drove away, by only thinking of his self.