Darned ol' DA

"Honey, I think we need to get a different car...we've had this one for a while"

'Let's go look at some model homes over the weekend"

"You know, I'd really like to move somewhere else"

"I think I'm going to change jobs...I'm just tired of this one"

"Maybe we should change churches, I'm getting bored here"

"No sweetie, I just can't get a divorce yet"

 

DA, otherwise known as destination addiction, is an insidious "itch" that can affect even the most unsuspecting guys.  It's more than the "7 year itch" or the infamous "mid-life crisis" people often joke about.  It's more, I believe, than the "itch" and so called "crisis" because it is not limited to just one thing...one's perceived love life, but rather it results from ones invented dissatisfaction with everything around him....his wife, his home, his stuff, his job, his church, etc.  DA's are not happy campers.  If one would be able to crack the shell he has encased himself in, the core root of the problem would be him himself....not everything around him.

 

DA's forget that no matter where they wake up, they are still themselves.  They fail to realize that wherever they are, when they look in that mirror, they will still be looking at themselves.  And, they also fail to realize that things and stuff just won't change their inner selves for any lasting time.  DA's are guys that just can't seem to find the handle on satisfaction, contentment, and joy.  And, lest you get too puffy with yourself, bear in mind that DA's are also often excellent pretenders.  They can pretend to be just perfectly happy with the way things are, just as they can pretend to be the most pious Christian in the house. 

 

Perhaps we all have a little bit of DA within us.  After all, we are human, and we do have baggage.  Since satisfaction, contentment, and joy are the key elements missing in the DA, what counteracts our yearnings for "change" and fulfills our longing for those three elements?  A good, solid, two-way relationship with the One in whose image we are made....God. 

 

 

If Christ is at your center, so will your satisfaction, contentment, and joy......your happiness.