A Cure for Envy
The cure begins when we accept it's OK to admire the accomplishments and achievements of others without wanting to become that person or erase that person by taking their place in a situation that doesn't belong to us.
If you look at your life and feel dissatified, you may be entering the state known as "divine dissatisfaction."
Divine dissatisfaction, a phrase many of us have heard for several years, is an invitation to growth and personal development. If you refuse the invitation, you may slide into that space known as envy.
Envy is dangerous because it is supported by a distant, limited- knowledge judgment of another person's life. Envy is built upon an impossible fantasy of wanting another life we haven't been given and a life we don't fully understand.
Even more sadly, envy takes our focus away from personal improvement and moves our focus to resentment of another person.
Envy may even turn our resentful energies towards God.
Consider these types of questions: Why do I have this life? Why didn't God give me a certain type of family or marriage? Why do I have to live or work here? Why is my health broken or compromised? Why don't I have children?
Has God treated me fairly?
Why am I single? Why am I divorced? Why did my spouse die? Why did God make a a minority , or a woman, or disabled, or why was I born in this part of the world, or in this town? Why did my father leave? Why did my mother die? Why am I an only child? Why does my family have so many annoying relatives?
The list is endless.
Divine dissatisfaction is a call to change, repent, grow, forgive, move on, expand, or reinvent yourself.
The call of envy is an invitation to dive into a deep, painful pit from which no one escapes unscarred.
With God's love and help, choose the path of life. Ask God to guide the dreams and hopes you have for the future. Reject the curse of envy.
If you look at your life and feel dissatified, you may be entering the state known as "divine dissatisfaction."
Divine dissatisfaction, a phrase many of us have heard for several years, is an invitation to growth and personal development. If you refuse the invitation, you may slide into that space known as envy.
Envy is dangerous because it is supported by a distant, limited- knowledge judgment of another person's life. Envy is built upon an impossible fantasy of wanting another life we haven't been given and a life we don't fully understand.
Even more sadly, envy takes our focus away from personal improvement and moves our focus to resentment of another person.
Envy may even turn our resentful energies towards God.
Consider these types of questions: Why do I have this life? Why didn't God give me a certain type of family or marriage? Why do I have to live or work here? Why is my health broken or compromised? Why don't I have children?
Has God treated me fairly?
Why am I single? Why am I divorced? Why did my spouse die? Why did God make a a minority , or a woman, or disabled, or why was I born in this part of the world, or in this town? Why did my father leave? Why did my mother die? Why am I an only child? Why does my family have so many annoying relatives?
The list is endless.
Divine dissatisfaction is a call to change, repent, grow, forgive, move on, expand, or reinvent yourself.
The call of envy is an invitation to dive into a deep, painful pit from which no one escapes unscarred.
With God's love and help, choose the path of life. Ask God to guide the dreams and hopes you have for the future. Reject the curse of envy.
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