What are your life questions?

Mornin', ladies. I'm as excited as some of you seem to be about Cafe Nudge, so much so that it's hard for me not to post, like, every other day. One of the challenges for MY (Baby Boomer) generation is not to try to do ALL the things ALL the time. 

Yours, it seems are different.

SARAH ELIZABETH: Our culture as a whole has gotten so far away from a Biblical foundation and everything is starting to become grey rather than black and white.

JAMIE: It's not that there aren't other Christians. It's just that they don't want to go as deep.

CHRISTY: So many in the church seem to want to have the perfect "Christian" life, rather than a Christ-centered life.

PAIGE: While we are supposedly the most connected generation, we are also the loneliest.

SARAH: We are the generation of 'good enough.' I see the eyes-glazing-over effect when I talk about wanting to be more than the stereotypical lazy young person.

KATIE: I see that as part of a larger obsession with individuality and self-expression.  Rather than a girl's image being tied up in her family background, she is free to craft an individual identity for herself, largely because technology allows for separation from family and community.

What comes through to me in a huge way (does it to you too?) is that you don't see yourselves as part of that 'norm.' 

And yet, everyone in every 18 to 30 generation in modern history has the same life-goals, just by virtue of age and developmental stage. I did. Your parents did. You do. Here's how it was summed up by a group of students at my alma mater, Stetson University. As they see it, there are 4  questions to be answered in your next decade:

        * How do I define myself?

        * How am I going to make a living?

        * Who will I be with in this life?

        * What is my place in the world?

I'm not suggesting you answer those questions in a comment because if you KNEW the answers, you'd be, like 35 or 40, right? What I do think would be valuable is to address these things:

    1.  Are those your life-questions right now? Do you have more to add to the list? Are any of them irrelevant?

    2. What's happening in your life that's either helping you move toward answers?

    3. Has anything become an obstacle to finding those answers? 

Next week we'll take a page from The Merciful Scar and get Sister Frankie's take on this. In the meantime, let's hear yours. Got a cup of something?

 

Blessings,

Nancy Rue