— Kahlil Gibran, Living Up In A Down World
Anti-anxiety medication such as Xanax, and anti-depression medication such as Prozac are being prescribed at epidemic levels to assist the over wrought person deal with thoughts propelling them into over-drive on a fast lane to no where worth living to die for.
The twilight hours are much more than poor vision, for they also represent a reduced sense of awareness that we can handle the pressure of over living. Coming to terms with ambitions representing a perceived need to keep up with the changing fashions of the in crowd, is also about selling ones future into the hands of slavery for appearances sake.
Often, when we believe we are in control of our life, we are not. Our life can lose its balance, and we wallow in a world of rapidly shifting empty pleasures, filled with ambitions driven by dreams of becoming successful, dictated by the norms of the material world.
An obsessive self focus can construct a life that leads its weary victims on a road into a wilderness of nothingness where aloneness, and isolation from reality reward its practitioners with the appearance of possessing everything, and nothing as its reward filled with misery.
Our Saviour invites us to let His words emerging from within our tired self soothe our fears, then to guide us out of our self excavated pit of grief, back into world where He can begin building a new life filled with our focus on helping others in dire need of our loving, practical assistance. Surrendering our life into the arms of The Saviour is to reclaim our birth right to live in furtherance of His plan to provide us with a life filled with happiness rising out of the ruins of our past attempts to do it all, our way.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
~ John 14:27
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