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What are our goals?

Wednesday, April 29, 2009. What are the dreams for our life? What do we hope for? What do we fear? Imagine we are sitting calmly in some coffee shop in the sun on a Saturday afternoon and talk about life, about our job situation, about partnership, about family and friends. What is it you hope for?

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Perhaps you first think of some direct goals: “get a better car” or “find a job which pays my family”. Maybe you try to find a partner, or you try to earn enough money to be able to afford studies or a mortgage. These are little and very concrete dreams we might have. They are natural, we should think about what we would like to reach.

I can ask more general: what is the ideal state you might want to reach? If there were no limits, what do you want life to be? Where would you move, how would you live? In other words we might ask: what is our concept of life? What is the goal state and what road map do we have to reach the goal state? Do we want to reach such a state at all? Are we goal oriented? Or are we person oriented? Relation oriented? Is our ideal state some network of relations, friendship, communication, the nice chat in the morning, the succession of meetings and various leisure activities?

I have been asking myself what type of ideal life Jesus envisions for us. What is it that God thinks to be great, fantastic, desirable? Jesus and the apostles put love into the center of their thinking. Love, truth, solidarity, practical help, trustworthyness and much more. So their ideal state is not a particular system, but a set of characteristics or traits. It is more the “how” than the “what” Jesus is talking about.

There is another important question linked to our dreams. Is it possible to realize an ideal state on this planet? Is the setup of our world such that we could reach a stable and lasting state? We are all limited by the basic framework of our life, by birth, youth, maturity, age and death. There is no lasting state we could reach, all states will change with time and will then be taken away by the end of our life. What I would call an ideal state would be different - it would be lasting and stable, sustainable. Jesus is talking about such a state, it is what he calls “eternal life”. We will need to discuss this in more depth soon! [R.W.E.P., jesusnetwork.eu]

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