Does life have meaning?

“Does life have meaning?” is not question which probes deepest into the broken hearts of souls. If you would study this question of philosophers and psychologists in depth, examine the life and witness of a man tried in the fire of faith and persecution: Victor Frankl, who after living as a prisoner for his faith wrote, “Man’s Search for Meaning.”

Perhaps the more pertinent question in the depths of the souls of all broken hearts is:

Does MY life have meaning?

You may have thought of or examined the existence of ALL life. You may have thought of or examined the existence of God and of man, the heavens and the earth, the plants and the animals. You may even have thought of or examined the existence and meaning of the spirit and soul. You may have reached high and dug deep to find the connection of mystery and the certainty between this life of the flesh and spirit of this life.

You may have thought of or examined every avenue, every path and every possibility to the unanswerable questions of an infinite creation within the purposeful neurons of an ever-inquiring mind. ALL these to answer your real question: Does MY life have meaning?

And yet in your own questioning have come up with no answer more hopeful than the one of the lyricist of the 1960’s.

Is that all there is, is that all there is?
If that’s all there is my friends, then let’s keep dancing
Let’s break out the booze and have a ball
If that’s all there is…

IF MY life has no meaning… IF that’s all there is, what can I do? … IF that’s all there is, my friends, what can we do?

Conclusions of the flesh… actions of escape… the buzz of the booze and distraction of drugs; temporary highs and tension-relieving lows; distractions of the party: ALL an escape from the inevitable answer – a final answer in death, even in judgment, which does finally reveal the answer you never will find in your SELF.

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This is the first in a three-part message on meaning, to be continued tomorrow.

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