How Can I Find Happiness in Life Once Again? (Part 2)

The problem with living off of the value creations of others; or providing charity to the point of dependency that we discussed in, (Part 1) How Can I Find Happiness in Life Once Again?, was that there could be no valuable exchange between the parties which provided a sense of self worth to the other.  This reminds me of a parable that reads like this: 

Parable of the Value Destroyer

 A certain rich man, being converted to do good works, went and built a score of soup-houses to feed the poor gratuitously.  And all the poor people of that town went therein and were fed. But the next year, behold, there were twice as many poor. And the rich man built another score of soup-houses, and they were all fed.  But the next year, there were still twice as many poor people to feed; but the rich man had exhausted his means, and could feed none at all. A judgment is therefore rendered against that man for his supposed beneficence.  For, while he did a little physical good that was tangible to the beneficiaries, he did a great spiritual wrong, because he lowered the value of manhood and womanhood in those that he fed. His benevolence promoted dependence.   

Parable of the Value Destroyer

Certain men fell down in a deep well, and at the bottom, they laid flat down on their bellies, and they prayed and cried out to be taken up, yet, they would not even raise their eyes to look upward. And others, at the top of the well, let down ropes, and they called down to them beneath to look up, and catch the ropes, but they would not. And, in course of time, they at the bottom said: Alas! Our prayers are not answered!  

Parable from the Value Creator

A rich man founded a place of labor for the poor, who had nothing to eat and nowhere to sleep. And he said unto them:  The Creator has given you hands to work with; come now, with your hands, be men and women.  And they went and worked and earned their living and shared their values with each other, benefiting all.  

So you see, these types of teachings which relate to value creations and self-worth, know no boundaries; the only boundaries placed in front of people are those boundaries which a value destroyer would force on us.  And like wise, boundaries are only before us when we allow ourselves to be deceived to believe that the perceived boundaries are real when in reality they are a deception – and un-truth.   Mark Hamilton gives us an outline portraying the outline of the decision base of a value creator and calls it simply, The Orientation for Positive Change. This orientation is as follows:

1.)   I will stop living as a usurper and learn to become a producer of competitive values in order to earn my prosperity and achieve happiness

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2.)   I will withdraw my support from those neo-cheaters who through direct or indirect force or coercion live off the efforts of others. 

If we choose to live by truthfully integrated self-evaluations of our lives leading to positive change and not negative self deceptions, we can live happy and undefeated lives.   I tell my Son all the time, “Choose to do the right thing so that you can bring about a light of understanding and peace in your life.”   So now in love, I also say to you, “Please choose the path of truth for your life and with honest based self evaluative discernment you will turn on the light of joy and value creation in your life leading to the abundant joy of living life itself! 

The Undefeated Life©