How's Life?

"How's life?" is the introductory phrase usually spoken with the intent there will be no answer. However, let's imagine the question is genuinely asked anticipating an honest answer: "How's life...is it happy, pleasant, good, or maybe even meaningful?"

Martin Seligman in his book, Authentic Happiness, writes of three forms of happiness:

1. Pleasant Life: a life full of positive emotion about the past, present, or future

2. Good Life: a life where you are using your "signature strengths" - those things at which you are good.

3. Meaningful Life: knowing what your highest strengths are and deploying them in the service of something larger than you are.

It's worth contemplating what type of life we want and then intentionally choosing to live it.

A Time of Reflection

Whether or not the Lenten season (beginning 02.17) is part of your spiritual tradition we can make the choice to use this forty day period to reflect on our spirit and the inner journey of the soul. Actually, for many reasons it's my favorite time of year.

The question to ponder this season is not so much about what you may find or discover. Rather, let the meditation be on whether or not you (we) are willing to be pursued by the One who is pursuing us:

:: Am I willing to be found?

:: Am I willing to be known?

:: Am I willing to be loved?

Forty days of meditation will be good for our souls.