some of you may have seen this before.  i hadn’t heard of Nick Vujicic until my co-worker forwarded an email to me about him.  talk about your amazing and inspirational!

we had a guest speaker at church yesterday and Jim talked about how God makes the seemingly insignificant and incapable amazingly significant and more than sufficiently capable.

i also heard something yesterday that my friend, ed, heard in another conversation over the weekend in terms of our culture and tendency toward independence and self-reliance.  i’m pretty sure i’m not getting all of what he said correct, but the gist is this:

it’s not that self-reliance is an issue as much as self-sufficiency.  if we were sufficient in and of ourselves then we wouldn’t have any problems or needs or wants.  but because we are not sufficient on our own — we do not have the capacity for all-sufficiency — we work at gaining that sufficiency elsewhere… hence, our self-reliance and independence.

it’s funny how you and i try so hard to ascribe “meaning” to our own lives — we work and strive and perservere to figure out a way to find meaning, purpose, and acceptance.  more often than not, we will find but sporadic and fleeting moments of happiness and contentedness.

where do you go to find sufficiency?

i’m still chewing on this one.  i know that i am incredibly independent and self-reliant.  i know that i like to find ways to get things done for me and done my way and gain attention/affirmation for any and all of my successes.