daily bread — tranquil, simple and moderate living
March 9, 2009“Give us this day our daily bread” — Lord’s prayer
For 22 years, I have understood the sentence as. ‘Father, please give me enough foods, moderate house, happy simple family and moderate wage’. Honestly, the child version of me was bothered with those words. ‘Why can I only live moderately? I wanna be rich and popular yet I can still be a good person’. The more mature version of myself finally accepted this as ‘Okay father.. I can understand if you want me to live moderately.. but if you give me more prosperity, I’ll do my best that I won’t go bad.. You have my word’.. It caused me to have longer Lord’s prayer than anyone else..
But then, reading a Christian website delivers me to open ‘John 6:51′:
“I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world” – King James Bible
So, it’s nothing about prosperity.. it’s nothing about real food.. it’s nothing about money.. it’s about Him. We shall live for Him regardless the fact that we are rich or not. So the Lord’s Prayer never forbid me from going rich and wealthy.. But again richness and wealthiness should not be the main issue.
Until here, the conclusion is ‘there is no mistake for being rich’. But then ‘What is with the richnes and wealthiness that makes them favorable than tranquil, simple and moderate living?’ My small yet round eyes have seen those happiness with them who live moderately. The happiness is a mature happiness since they just live simply happy regardless to the question are they able to buy the luxury.
but again nothing’s wrong with the luxury.. just don’t dwell in it.
hi marko kanadi!
hw r u?
be glad to know your blog is updated.
yes, good choice. hope you can enjoy your life, by your moderate daily bread.
GBU.
selama ini gw nge-blog di WLM cor.. mulai beralih ke yang lebih common aja.
If you were to give someone guidelines for living and multiple fulfillment, in a world you created to draw souls nearer to you, you would understand that different things are motivating to different individuals in different environments at different times and stages in their lives and development. Love applies universally. So we can not rule out riches, poorness, goodness and sin, if they are means and motivation which get us to the ultimate goal, oneness with the master. This is why all things are good. How we process all things is our personal choice. Just like shopping or selecting a home, we determine and allow truth and love into our own existence.