The Meaning of Life.

Now thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your actions! » Ag 1, 5.

Our life is constantly rained: work, children we have to put in school and their classes, checks we have to pay, distances we have to cover. Even if we do everything we can, we have to admit that we are not keeping up, which is why it seems strange that the Holy Scriptures call us in several places to stop and think. Why do we strain so much? What are our desires and goals? How do we want to achieve them? Do we even think about God, his requirements, and his will? God wants us to work. Do we work and live to honor him and help others? What hierarchy of values ​​do we profess? Let’s look at ourselves objectively. We are not just looking for excuses and alibis. Is it in our interest and for our good?

In previous decades, during the era of building socialism, ideological materialism was enforced. Pragmatic materialism is voluntary. Respects civil liberties. He doesn’t impose anything on our actions; he doesn’t argue with us. He offers enticingly. Once we ask what is the meaning of our life, today we ask what is our standard of living. An ethic based on self-sacrifice seems to have died out. Man will no longer give up his interests for a supra-personal ideal or the common good.

Let’s take seriously the warning of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who pointed out that the world that man has created for himself surrounds him from all sides and becomes a prison for him, thus leading him to cry out for freedom and something completely different. Silence must be learned if work and life are to retain meaning because science without values ​​becomes a nightmare and the main defendant of all development. Ideology is the trump card where the desire for wisdom, for contemplation, and for inner freedom does not even shy away. If we realize we are acting unwisely, let us have the courage to change.