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Home » Categories » Society » The Meaning of Life » The Meaning of Life is Sharing Life » Printer Friendly
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Throughout my life I have, like so many others, searched for its meaning. Grasping to understand my place in the world, where I am from and where I will go, made me realize that I am no more than one of the grains of sand on the seashore of descendants as promised by God to Abraham in Genesis 22:17. I can be washed away by the water, blown around by the wind, or used in the gizzard of a seagull to grind its food. We are all completely insignificant, less than unique, and easily forgotten among all those that inhabit the coastal shores of our world. We are simply the next cliché of human existence in a different time or are we?
Looking around at the many photographs in our home I realized that the meaning of life was glaring back at me from each frame. Every smile, every visited venue, and every event, involved something in our experiences with each other as we shared our lives. Weddings, new babies, soccer games, vacations, and pictures of loved ones whose lives have been shared with us hang on our walls. Some of the faces smiling back from the glass are still with us and some have shared and are now gone. The meaning of life is sharing life.
The written word, music, and song are primarily written about lives shared here on earth. Lyrics and melodies that tell of life’s humor, seriousness, beauty, darkness, success, disappointment, joy, and sorrow are ways that the songwriters and poets share their lives with us and others. Fiction, or non-fiction thoughts are shared with others to provoke the imagination and convey a feeling or idea. Why else would you write anything or post anything at Searchwarp? The meaning of life is sharing life by connecting with the emotions of others you will never know.
Our children are lives we help to form. My eldest son has become quite a confident man, college student, and soldier. I had always wanted to join the military like my son, father, grandfather, and great grandfather before me but my pride and stubbornness outmaneuvered my good sense. My middle son is a good student, computer literate, very athletic, confident demeanor, and a physical and mental toughness that I did not have at his age. My daughter has always had a beautiful voice, outgoing spirit, and a desire to perform, which is something I never had the nerve to pursue. Living vicariously through your children is not a sin, as long as it is viewed as a responsibility, privilege and blessing. I may not have joined the military, been emotionally and physically strong at a young age, or had the ability to sing like a bird, but my children have given that to me. You are only the spectator who can boo, cheer, laugh, or cry but you can share. The meaning of life is sharing life with those you love and grow with every day.
Imagine your ancestors trying to fathom the meaning of life and having the opportunity to look into the future to see how their family tree would grow and branch and prosper. How those that owe their existence to those before would live long, die young, prosper, fail, hate, or love. Jasper Newton Searles, my great, great, grandfather, soldier, lawyer, judge, husband and whose existence predestined my own could never have imagined what was ahead for his family. The meaning of life is sharing life though you may never know what you shared.
The lives we touch that mean so much to us and the light you have an opportunity to share with others. The first friend in kindergarten, first teacher, first kiss, first boss, and first experience with the death of someone you knew. The first baseball caught, first ball dropped, first triumph, first failure, first love, first heart break, and all those things that follow your firsts. Not always positive uplifting experiences but definitely the sum of your life that all help to form who you are and how you will share life’s meaning with others. The meaning of life is sharing life with those that pass through.
Others have transcended simply sharing life with those they casually come in contact with in their travels. They have worked to seek out those that need other lives shared in their own. People like Billy Graham, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Mother Teresa stepped outside the norm and shared life with people that needed to hear a message. Each knew that the meaning of life involved sharing life unselfishly.
Christ came to earth so we may have life. His Word expounds the meaning of life in his example “…to live a life worthy of the calling you have received." (Ephesians 4:1). In the words of Christ “Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." Christ’s example was sharing his life with us. He knew that the meaning of life was sharing life by sacrificing his own.
The meaning of life is sharing life.
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