What Happens When Our Narrative Remains The Same
Repeating the same narrative is insanity.
Sometimes we let our dreams define our lives too much. We are told to chase after them, yet the battle persists where we are pulled in several directions.
Having a dream is important — everyone should have one.
But there is something far more important than just a dream.
What’s more important is having a purpose. Purpose makes life worthwhile. It makes it meaningful.
We will continue to chase rainbows throughout our lives if we have no purpose. And once we find our treasure at the other end of the rainbow, we will repeat the narrative and chase another rainbow. The loop repeats over and over again.
Chasing for the thrill of it all will only lead us with feelings of emptiness.
We need purpose. We need intention to guide us through the maze of life and navigate toward our dreams.
This past Sunday I had listened to a sermon. It was a message that resonated with me throughout this busy week. The pastor had posed the following question to us.
What are the cisterns — the containers — we have built up for ourselves?
In the reading of the passage, we find out that the nobles of the story have sent out their servants to fetch water from their self-created cisterns. The nobles created several cisterns and here was the irony of it all: there was no rain — there was no water to fill up the cisterns, let alone help sustain themselves.
The moral of the story being this:
We often create a cistern to try and fill the void and emptiness we feel inside. Some decide to make the reliance of social media as their cistern. They make social media their fountain of water and once the temporary high of illusory satisfaction, another cistern is created.
Other people create a cistern for money and make money their fountain of life. For others, it could be writing, music, drugs, or other addictions.
We all have cisterns. We create cisterns all the time and make them our gods.
We do it on auto-pilot. The more we get trapped into building cistern after cistern… it’s harder to trace back the true source of our fulfillment and happiness.
It’s not about creating our own cisterns to help sustain us in life. That is insanity — we repeat the same tragedy of heartbreak and loneliness over and over again. This is the same narrative of humanity repeated once more.
Instead, we just have to find the true source of water that will sustain us on the journey in this life.
It won’t be easy. Most journeys rarely are.
However, the only way we can better see the true source of our dreams, happiness, and fulfillment is to clear the way.
We have to destroy the cisterns we have built up for ourselves. Once that has been accomplished, we can finally begin to listen to the truth in our hearts rhythmically beating like drips of water from a spout… about to burst at any moment — a surge, an outpour — of flowing water.
With love. ❤
