Friday Reflections: #Value

What is value? What does it mean to be worthy? How much do I have to produce to be worthy? Do I have to earn value? Or rest? Or love?

For most of my life I have thought I needed to earn value and love through productivity, doing, making money, and creating results. I didn’t think about this so much explicitly, but it was always running in the background and informed how I interacted with the world. Now, in this liminal space “between careers,” I struggle with this. Do I have value if don’t have a big career? If I am not running until I collapse in bed every day. I was discussing this with my Workaholics Anonymous sponsor, and he posed this question?

How much do your dogs produce? How much do they earn? How hard do they work? But how much do you value them? What value do they bring to you? It made me pause. I value them a lot. I love them and they bring me joy without producing or earning anything. His next question hit me. “How much more does God love and value you?” Tears welled up in my eyes as I know this is true, that God loves me even more. Then I had an epiphany of my own. Some moments in my life of the purest joy are watching my dogs play in the grass and be completely carefree and happy. What if God feels the same way about us? About me? What if God gets some of his/her greatest joy by seeing us be completely happy? What if that is all he wants for us and what brings him/her the most joy? If so, it changes my focus completely from grinding and earning and striving to be worthy to focusing on enjoying every moment I am given. Maybe this is our highest calling.

Go for joy this weekend! Make God smile.

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