Driven
Dear Eugene, Nothing drives us. No thing drives us. Of course the one who does the driving is never a What but a Who . How can it be otherwise? This is no high philosophy or mere play on words. A child can see that but most of us have effectively chased away the child. "What drives you?" Again that's the question. Career? Ambition? A will to survive? Lust for life? The one who does the driving is never a What ; I feel silly to state something so obvious. To say our life is fueled by, for example, ambition is to say a car is driven by gasoline, maybe the law of physics, maybe even human ingenuity. No. A car is driven by a Creator who purposes the car's moving to achieve an end meaningful to the Creator. If the Creator finds no reason to move, no meaning to go from A to B, there would have never been a car, not even the idea of giving something a "drive." The Creator is driven; the drivenness in t...