“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith.”–Galatians 2:20
I’ve been reflecting on what I wanted my first blog post to be about. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about myself over the years. I got a Masters in Psychology in part to “figure myself out” and my Masters thesis was on “The importance of integrity: the consistency between self-concept clarity, subjective well being and meaning” or something like that. Basically I was trying to figure out what brings meaning and happiness to life and my theory at the time was that you needed to have consistency between what you value and how you live. So if I say that family is my most important value, but I am a work-a-holic and am never home, I probably won’t have happiness or a sense of meaning in my life. Over time I realized I wasn’t going to find happiness and meaning inside myself…or expect others to fulfill this either. I finally listened to God’s call on my life and now spend each day trying to discover His will for my life. When I surrender and “let go and let God”, He leads to matchless joy, peace and meaning I couldn’t begin to hope for relying on myself or others.