Are We a Sad Generation with Happy Pictures?

Are We a sad generation with happy pictures?

Yes, we are!

Why are we sad?

Perhaps because we are viewing life the wrong way.

Perhaps because we are focused on what could be and what never was, instead of what is.

Perhaps because we haven't mastered the art of contentment.

Perhaps because comparison is our prison.

We choose to live both in the future and the past and ignore the present because it's too painful for us to fathom.

We are an ungrateful generation.

Things don't go our way and we think we are cursed, or God is mad at us.

Do you ever wonder why you went through what you went through?

You went through it for a reason.

No experience is meaningless or wasted, even when it feels that way.

We all have a purpose to fulfil. 

That's why God chose to put us in our mothers’ bellies.

That's why we survived our births.

We are a sad generation because we haven't found the purpose God created us for. 

Or rather we haven't asked Him yet, or we don't know how to.

And if we have asked and we do know, it's probably because we are frustrated with what we have been given.

Or rather, we are not satisfied with who we are meant to become or lack understanding of it.

Or we use the tools that haven't been given to us, but to others to try and create our paths to our becoming.

However, if we don't know...

We search in the wrong places and ask the wrong people, instead of the One who created us.

We like to wallow in our self-pity when our imitation of influencers and celebrities, fail us because we assume they have discovered the secret to life and the hidden riches of this world.

We are a sad generation with happy pictures because we are viewing life through the wrong lenses. 

We assume success is one size fits all, but there are different ways to it.

What is good for the goose is not necessarily good for the gander, and what is normal to the spider is chaos to the ant.

When we don't get what we want, and when we want it, we sulk and consider ourselves doomed to the hells of failure, never to recover.

Or when we do get it, but we are still not satisfied because we want more.

God's timing is indeed perfect and best.

What He created us for is waiting for us patiently.

However, because we only see the underside of the beautiful tapestry God is weaving for us.

We tend to harm ourselves and look for words to describe exactly how we feel.

Forgetting He sees the upper, we feed those words and dwell on them until they become our reality.

We are a sad generation with happy pictures, because of the words we speak into our lives and destiny.

We are never satisfied with just living in the moment and letting life take its course and Jesus taking the wheel, while we work towards what is truly ours.

We are a sad generation with happy pictures because we have chosen society, instead of the author and finisher of our faith to write our fate and stories and be our narrator. 

We have never truly just lived in the moment because we keep looking for what next is.

This has been our narrative.