Sowing and Reaping

It’s amazing; the amount of time and energy we spend each day working toward another's goal, in order to maintain the lifestyles that we’ve become so accustomed to; styles of life that very few of us seem to have the time or energy to enjoy in those few hours, minutes, seconds, moments of solitude just before or after we return to work. We struggle to pay for lifestyles, houses, furniture, education, and the cushions to secure that great sought after nest egg.
It is written in Hagai 1:6: You have sown much, and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and you that earn wages earn wages to put them into a bag with holes.
I believe that the goal of living a fruitful, productive life can be ultimately achieved through alignment with universal principles and the understanding of life as a process, a series of progressions, regressions, victories, failures. It is a universal principle that there is a force generated by a person's actions that perpetuates consequence. I can clarify this statement simply by employing the Biblical words sowing and reaping. I believe that in our efforts to achieve a more abundant life for ourselves and our children, we unknowingly sow into the existence of non-living things; if that makes sense. In other words, much of our time, energy, and resources (namely money) are given toward careers, mortgages, carnotes, finances, etc. Yet, we are never satisfied.
“In the pursuit of happiness” is a phrase that has often confused me. Happiness never runs away; nor does it try to evade us. It is just an attitude that we choose to reject or accept in our lives. The Apostle Paul wrote from an ancient jail cell: I'm just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I've found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty.