MISERABLY SATISFIED/DISSATISFIED

PRACTICE: Close your eyes and visualize a time/place where misery was/is comfortable.

I am currently on a quest with several people in my immediate world to change our lifestyle around food, physical activity, self- awareness etc. One of my discoveries is that people (ALL OF US), can become satisfied with being miserably dissatisfied. Said another way, my dissatisfaction, miserable as it is, has become my norm. The situation doesn’t support my goals and desires for my life but my efforts to change it are halfhearted at best. My normal has a certain level of comfort to it. My normal requires me to only do what I know and have always done so I satisfied… Miserably satisfied with what is often totally unacceptable. It is only when a dream has the potential to come true but must be deferred or a problem occurs that is undeniably a result of living in miserable satisfaction that I am propelled to move from the place of comfort to a place change (discomfort).

It is in this place of changing (discomfort) that some real truths begin to rise to the surface. And I do mean rise to the surface because they usually are truths that we have known intellectually for a long time. We rejected the fullness of the truths as we lived in our comfort zone.

Acceptance of the truths… my back hurts because it is weak and needs to be strengthen through exercise/ my relationships suffer because I am a taker never a giver/ I am overweight because of what I eat not an underactive thyroid, and perhaps I am unhappy because I am unwilling to search for happiness from within first…the list could go on forever…only you can name your truth…when miserable satisfaction(comfort) is finally acknowledged as what it really is – miserable dissatisfaction, then dear friends, change is knocking loudly at the door. Will you open it? The choice is always yours.

Psalm 51:6

PONDER THIS THOUGHT – Personal comfort can be the destroyer of personal growth.