We continue this week in Wild at Heart by reading and discussing 2 sections to round out chapter 3.
Last week we talked about what is man made for? What are you meant for? You are meant for greatness and we all have different ways to get to greatness and greatness looks different for everyone.
Posers
Have you ever met that person who is trying just a little too hard to be everyone’s friend? That man who is excellent at his job and has all the ability in the world to complete his daily tasks but is still not happy? It seems both people realize that there is something more for them but can’t quite find it and so are “looking for love in all the wrong places”.
How can we verbalize this struggle to find what makes us come alive? First of all I think that we need to start talking. It is macho to be THE man and THE man doesn’t talk about deeper issues. That would not be manly.
Men should be able to express themselves without being weepy all that time and without uncontrollable anger.
We see posing in our church every week. Men think what if everyone really knew what I have done? They would never accept me or let me be around anymore. That is a fear of acceptance.
Are you that man that can talk about more than the score of the game last night?
Strength Gone Bad
Men tend to be goal driven and task oriented. They want to have an objective and get it done. Thank God we are made this way. We need to understand why we are made this way.
Adam falls and with that we are all stuck with concupiscence. How’s that for a $10 word?
The Catechism defines it as human appetites or desires which remain distorted due to the temporal consequences of original sin, which remain even after Baptism, and which produce an inclination to sin.
What are your strengths? Great writer? Amazing musician? Mountain Biker? Theologian? Mechanic? Thinker?
How has your ability to focus on one task and get it done with precision combined with the fall of man kept you from achieving greatness?
I have noticed in my own life when things get hard I tend to concentrate on stock piling money to pay off some debt but because I am not perfect I want so badly to blow it on technology. A new computer, updated software, new video games, cell phone accessories, etc…
My ability to focus on budgeting money is a great strength but because I am not even close to perfect I want so badly to spend it on things that I don’t need.
How can we move beyond being posers in our own lives?
Do you have a strength that is masking something deeper? Is that strength protecting you from really seeing the man that God designed you to be?
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