Jan 1st, 2022: If Life is a Brazilian Steak House...

 

Happy New Year! If you are up early enough to read my blog this morning, you make it through another New Year's celebration safely. My wife and I received an invitation from a friend (owner of a Brazilian Steak House) to have our New Year's Eve dinner at Bolero. It was a great dinner with friendly service.

It was an exercise of preference, discipline, and priorities when we go to Brazilian Steak House. Guests can choose the kinds of meat they like and in the order of their liking. They decide when they would like to stop or pass. There is no time limit. 

If the world is a Brazilian Steak House, how would we like to live our lives?

There is a price. Living life meaningfully always comes with a price. Loving others outrageously has its own price tag. We have to sacrifice to get an education, run a business, and invest in others. The price of living is not just financial. It is emotional and mental as well. We should also consider spiritual discernment.

There has to be a choice. Life loses its meaning when we have no choice. We choose our life partners and where we want to live. We like to go on vacation according to our time frames. We want to have control over our finances. That might be why forced vaccination has got some serious push-back. It is like being told that there is only one way to live.

There has to be a decision to enjoy life experience. Sometimes I don't know what to say to people who tell me they are just surviving. Life is a lot harder if we don't have the appetite for it. Enjoying life is deciding to live graciously, courageously, passionately, and humbly. These are spices that bring out the best tastes of life.

Philippians 4: 13
" I can do all things through him who strengthens me."

1 John 4: 19
"We love because he first loved us."

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