Sunday Sermon
Everything Makes You Happy
Once you go post-ego. Everything!
This slight feeling of uneasiness I have this Sunday morning.
Yes, that’s right. It makes me happy.
I know you’re familiar with this uneasy feeling. “Isn’t there something I should be doing?” That’s a consequence of the Protestant work ethic in our country. And the dog-eat-dog culture of competitive capitalism.
We’ve always got to be striving. Working. Hustling.
Here on a Sunday morning I am doing nothing and feeling uneasy about it. Because there’s usually so much I should be doing.
(Writing, exercising, working, texting, arranging, planning, striving, hustling…)
So when I’m just sitting here doing nothing, it creeps up, this feeling of anxiety.
And this makes me happy!
Yes. Because EVERYTHING I experience makes me happy. Experience itself is such a privilege. After all, many organisms have died and no longer experience anything.
We’re on the right side of the grass, as they say.
I was teaching myself “Don’t Fear the Reaper” on the guitar the other day because my wife wanted to have a classic…
