Lately I have been surrounded by many people who have all types of good news: babies and pregnancies, new or better jobs, incredible days of growth, or passing a big test. I have genuinely been happy for everyone as they enter into new and better stages of life. Their joy has been a pebble or rock dropped in the lake, and I have felt and participated in the ripples of their happiness.
The problem is that I no longer just want to be moved due to the ripples of other people’s happiness. I want to experience a joy of my own, I want my good news to be the cause of ripples. I don’t need a rock thrown into my lake, just a pebble. I need a bit of joy that is all mine – though I am willing to share. I want other people to feel and participate in the ripples of my happiness.
I have felt incredibly selfish about this feeling, as if desiring my own happiness means that I am not happy for others. I truly want our lake to be one where pebbles and rocks are continually dropped, where I live in a community that can daily be encouraged by one another as we feel the ripples – the ripples of joy and sadness.
2 comments:
sometimes with those highs, come great lows. also, are you able to read my blog?
Hey, really appreciate your analogy of ripples in a lake... We've already talked about this, but I want those happy ripples for you too!
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