Love, Care & Share!

"For those who want to save their life will lose it. And those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it." – Mark 8:35.

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Some years ago, after giving an address in Melbourne, Australia, the famous Viennese psychiatrist Victor Frankl was given a boomerang as a gift.

Dr. Frankl thought for a few minutes and then said that he felt the boomerang symbolized human existence.  People assume that the function of the boomerang is to return to the thrower.  But this isn't true.  The boomerang returns to the thrower only when it misses the target.

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The same is true of in life, he said.  We return to ourselves to become self-centered and self absorbed when we have failed to find meaning in life.

If we live for ourselves, spend our money only on ourselves or those closest to ourselves, if we squander our time, and exert our strength only for those things that please us, we pay the price of a meaningless existence.

This is the season for this reason; to love, care and share.

That analysis of life coincides with what Jesus has to say in Mark 8:35, "For those who want to save their life will lose it.  And those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it."

Blessed Day!