Wabikigai: Sustainable Thinking, Wabi Sabi, & Ikigai way of life 3
Recap:
Sustainable thinking: You become what you think about most of the time
“For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.”
Proverbs 23:7
Wabi Sabi: appreciating and finding perfection in imperfection.
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
2 Cor. 12:9
Wabikigai: Sustainable Thinking, Wabi Sabi, & Ikigai way of life 3
Recap:
Sustainable thinking: You become what you think about most of the time
“For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.”
Proverbs 23:7
Wabi Sabi: appreciating and finding perfection in imperfection.
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
2 Cor. 12:9
Ikigai: finding the reason for being, and allowing that to be the source for a long, fulfilled life.
“Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.”
Proverbs 29:18
Everyone and everything has purpose. We are all at our peak existence when we our serving and doing what we are designed to do.
One of my books on ikigai says:
The purpose in life is to discover your gift.
The work of life is to develop it.
The meaning of life is to give your gift away.
That’s servitude. You are here on purpose, and that great idea you have in you is the answer to a problem the world has. Seek to know your calling, and be sure to start doing what you are called to do.
We get so wrapped up into being like everyone else, that many times we forget we are unique and called according to a specific calling, just for us. We try so hard to be great with working with our ultimate gifts and talents, and we miss the point.
The point to ikigai is to do what you do naturally, flowing in your gifts with ease, where your very soul seems to be at peak performance, and your happiness is contagious.
Your ikigai could be from just cooking meals, all the way to leading and teaching people, but whatever it is, it’s you. Your everyday being, stop looking at the lifetime achievement awards, and live your everyday life right now. in fact, that lifetime we look to the future in trying to achieve is solely made up of the everyday accomplishments we accumulate as we live life to the fullest, doing what we are designed to do!
A chair was designed to be sat on. When it constantly used as a ladder, the pressure on the legs make it weak and wobbly, eventually breaking. Like this, when we steady try to be who we aren’t, and try to be the God of our own lives, we have to orchestrate as God would, we have to set future appointments like God would, we have to handle our enemies as God would, and so on and so on. So let’s let God be God, and live life in a way that’s meaningful to Him, and ourselves!
This sustains your life, and since this life is for you and you only, appreciate the beauty and how special you are in this world. I bet you are already close to living out your ikigai, you just have to start to now do it intentionaly!
"Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands . . . so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody"
1 Thessalonians 4:11,12
