Get Over Yourself & Finally Find Joy

xlEj9Justin Taylor posted this quote the other day and it has been blessing me since. Desiring you, my dear readers, to be blessed, I offer it to thee.

G.K Chesterton:

How much happier you would be if you only knew that these people cared nothing about you!

How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure; if you could see them walking as they are in their sunny selfishness and their virile indifference!

You would begin to be interested in them because they were not interested in you.

You would break out of this tiny and tawdry theater in which your own little plot is always being played, and you would find yourself under a freer sky, in a street full of splendid strangers. (Taken from Orthodoxy (1908), chapter 2, “The Maniac”)

Isn’t it so freeing to remember that you are not the main character, the hero, or the focus of the world? Your little shoulders cannot bear such a burden. Yet, isn’t then even more astounding that we know Who Is?

For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen” Romans 11:36

About Dana Dill

I'm a Christian, husband, daddy, pastor, professor, and hope to be a friend to pilgrims on their way home.
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