Meaninglessly Absurd It’s Monday today and I’m in my usual day off mode, since we life coaches are busy mostly on weekends. As years past by we learned that Mondays are beneficial for our bodies and mind to regroup and heal. Being a life coach needs careful observance and discipline to family life and work life. Mondays are my days of questioning. Asking myself the things I can’t explain, like for instance why is love needed in this world. Why do people hate so much, and maybe why is there a reason for everything we are doing? Broad as it may seem, we human being are prone to asking questions. Some of as dwell into in and others are passive about it. One question I’ve been asking is “why everything is meaningless?”. It so happens I read The Word of God frequently and when I get to the book of Ecclesiastes I come to a dead still pause and re-ask my self of the writer’s proposition that “everything is meaningless”. I pondered on this and came to a realization that I need to somehow answer this, to dig deeper. My plan was to write the answer when everybody in our home is fast asleep. After an hour of reading the book of Ecclesiastes I went on to my usual day off mode. Bonding with Sharon and the kids: Stephen, Shawn and Neli. We played, talked some silly and funny stuff, ate together and watch cable TV (yes! you guessed it right - cartoons for them). After lunch and cleaning them up, we went to sleep for our siesta rest time. I escape the moment to pay all the bills we have and put some hours in my “Me Time” moments. Simultaneously doing all of these things I was asking myself “why all of the things in this world are utterly meaningless?”. At the back of my mind I’m thinking not to plan anymore, not to be excellent anymore, not to gain knowledge and sharpen my decision making skills, not to mentor people and let them be since they too are meaningless. But I came to a brink of utterly amazement when I realized that I can’t do that with my family. I know you’re thinking what I’m thinking. Yes! We can’t just think and act that our families are meaningless too. The love and confusion inside of me was building. I can’t wait to go home and study on what really the writer was saying. When I arrived home we remembered that it was Boys’ Date Night and we need to go out for a movie and spend the time with each other. The passion for knowing this truth was paused for a while since I need to do what’s in my priority: God, Family, Work and Ministry. The boys and I ended up watching this group of people with super human gifts and abilities that needed to go to the past and fix it in order for the present to be good. Again it hit me! Why in the world you need to fix the past? I shelved my thoughts and was excited to go home again and organize altogether all my realizations this day. We had a wonderful time with our boys date. After all of them slept, I dig in the writer’s thoughts and somehow figured it out. In Ecclesiastes 12:8 it says: 8 “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Everything is meaningless! (1) The writer wrote that everything are meaningless. Wisdom is meaningless. Pleasures is meaningless. Working extremely hard is meaningless. Foolishness also is meaningless. Advancement is meaningless. Riches are meaningless. Everything is meaningless. I looked up the word for meaningless. It’s translated as delusion or absurdity. Then this light bulb awoke in my mind and figured out why we can’t say that our families are meaningless as I mentioned this tension a while ago. Somehow I know the writer is correct when he states everything is absurd. But yet I still to do better at what I’m doing. I still need to pursue these things. But how? Let’s journey with this. The writer is saying everything is temporary. Everything has no lasting value. If we don’t get this, we’ll be caught in a trap of the absurd. All of these things are empty pleasures. For instance, if we kill our selves to get the highest position in our company and fail with marriage and parenting, then it’s absurd! If we get all the riches in this world and got it by the wrong means by bribery and use of power, then it’s absurd! If we think advancing oneself while putting people down in the process is fine to us, then it’s absurd. If we do these things then we’re building our lives on lies. If we build our lives for the temporal now and not for the future of our family then they too will live in lies. That’s why the writer of Ecclesiastes concluded, 13 Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind. 14 For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil. (2) Let’s not pursue the meaninglessly absurd things but rather the more important things in life. The more we are in tune to doing what is right, the more we get away form the meaningless and absurd. (1) (2) The New International Version. (2011). . Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 04:41:30 +0000
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