The Meaning of Life with Dr. Bob

I often find myself trying too hard to capture and hold the meaning of life. Seems like an incongruity, doesn’t it? Here I am “being happy” and instead I find myself striving after happiness as the meaning of life. I get myself wound up and can’t let go.

You may not be old enough to remember wind-up watches and clocks. Please let me tell you about them, a little. These wind-up time-pieces had what’s called a main spring within them. You wound that spring up using a key for a clock, or a stem on a watch. When the spring was coiled, it stored energy which it released “over time” (pun intended). As the spring uncoiled, it force the mechanism within the clock or watch to move. The gears and sprockets within the time piece caused the spring to loosen at a set rate. Thus “keeping time.”

But, you could wind these springs too tight. Then the clock or watch would lock up and not work at all. So, you had to be careful to wind well, but not too tightly. That’s the case with us, human beings. We need to be energized, to receive power, but we need to be careful not to wind ourselves too tightly or we will be under so much tension, we cannot work effectively. The springs in the watches or clocks had to be coiled to a relaxed tension. No more.

How do we translate that to ourselves? We need to be keeping watch (again, pun intended, even if it is a bad one) over ourselves to see that we are doing things like meditating or praying to make connection with The Source of All That Is. But we need to be relaxed about it. There is no hurry, no deadline. God has always been there and will always be. As long as we make the effort “to be happy,” we will find happiness and, thus, the meaning of life.

We must keep vigilant lest we slip away from being happy. But we need to be relaxed about it. Happiness is always there, always with us. Never farther than our next conscious heartbeat. We need not stress ourselves over finding and keeping the meaning of life.

I wholeheartedly invite comments and concerns.

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