I have a morning routine that includes reading the Bible, meditating upon what God is teaching me through those words and how I can implement the lessons into my day.
I’ll be completely honest in saying that some of those days I find it difficult to find the message, kinda like I grasping for straws. As a side note, I decided to research the googles to figure out what the phrase “grasping for straws” truly means. I found it interesting and applicable in that it’s similar to a drowning person grasping at the weeds to try and save oneself.
The longer I practice, the longer I yearn to learn without any expectation, the more I hear the teaching within the words.
Surprise. When you remove the noise, that’s when you suddenly hear the teaching.
That’s what happened today.
Luke 15:11-31, which is the story of the lost son, commonly know as the prodigal son.
There are three characters in the story and since I’m not a biblical scholar I’d like to stick to how the story can parallel some of our own lives today.
First there is the younger son, the lost son, who asks for his inheritance early, took his money to look for something better. Truly seeking pleasure at his own expense without looking into the future at how his current choices might affect his future results. In the story we’re not surprised in how he loses all of his money through pleasurable experiences and ends up destitute, starving, working in the fields feeding the pigs. Finding himself in a place of desperation, he swallows his pride, admits his powerlessness, returns to his father to repent and ask to work as one of his father’s hired hands.
Then there is the father, full of love, giving his son the free will to do as he pleases. He doesn’t attempt to control him and isn’t angry or disappointed in him when he returns. He throws a party in celebration of his son’s return.
Lastly, we have the eldest son who stays home, works the farm by choice, possibly in hopes of being the “better” son in the eyes of his father. The eldest son is looking for validation for his hard work and diligence, so much so that when his brother returns he refuses to join the celebration. Jealous and acting like an emotional child, he’s not all in on his choice and blames his father for not treating him with the love he is treating the “lost” son with.
Maybe you know someone who could fit into one of these three roles.
Maybe you see yourself in one of these three characters.
Maybe, like myself, you see a little of yourself in each of them.
My attention was mostly drawn to the older son.
He had a manual for how his father should be respondin so that he could be happy. He wanted his father to act differently towards the younger child, as well as himself, so that he could feel better.
He was judging his brother for his choices in an effort to make himself feel better.
He was being an emotional child by not taking responsibility for how he felt, blaming both father and brother.
Basically, he wasn’t managing his mind.
Managing your mind doesn’t mean we have to be happy all of the time.
It means recognizing what is causing us to feel the way we do.
It’s recognizing that we always have a choice as to how we feel, without having to change what is happening outside of us.
After finishing my Awaken You program the older brother would have recognized the cause of his anger, see the results that anger produces and from that place; determine if he wanted to go to the party or not.
He could be all in on his choice from a place of love for himself, and everyone else, not from a place of blame and resentment.
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