You Are Beloved by Bobby Schuller

Author:Bobby Schuller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2018-04-25T04:00:00+00:00

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YOU’RE NOT WHAT YOU HAVE—BUT GRATITUDE WILL GIVE YOU MORE

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

—Meister Eckhart

Southern California and the greater Los Angeles area is one of the wealthiest places on earth. Every day you see beautiful people wearing the latest designer clothes, drinking expensive coffee, and sending their children to the finest schools and extra-curricular activities. (You mean your school doesn’t have a lacrosse, surf, or golf team?) On the surface, everyone here has an almost perfect life, the kind most people would dream of. But having lived and served here for a long time, I know they are anything but. Though they are wealthy, these people are also in debt, stressed out, out of energy, and still hungry for more. In a way, Californians are an extreme version of everyone else. Most people who live here moved here.

I don’t say this to be critical of my people. I love them and love California. I say it because I’ve realized that, in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s words, “Man is a creature who can get used to anything.” Though many people here are rich, they are as hungry as the rest of us—maybe hungrier. It seems that in life, sufficiency has as much to do with the heart as it does the bank account. If you can’t be happy with what you have, you likely won’t be happy when you have a lot.

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