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Self-Giving and Self-Fulfillment in Marriage and the Family

If you were asked which would make you happier to receive $1 million, or to give $1 million you might stand back and reflect: "Well, if I were in a position to give a million, say, because I had fortune of $100 million, I might be happy giving $1 million. But as things are right now, I think I'd be happier receiving it." This may seem common sense, but it is not necessarily gospel sense. It may not even be true in the deepest human sense. St.Paul records Our Lord's words: it is happier to give than to receive. This is a formula not just for getting to heaven, but also for enjoying the happiness this earth can provide. We are not self-sufficient, we cannot make ourselves happy by turning in on ourselves. Happiness comes to us from outside; to receive it we must be open. Anyone who chooses to be a closed system will always end as a miserable failure. Hell is made up of closed systems that have failed. God is bent on opening us, and at times uses events designed to work on us as a can-opener or perhaps as a high-explosive in order to do so. The whole Christian philosophy of life is there in the Gospel: don't seek yourself or you will lose self, lose self and you will find; better to give, for then not only will you be happier but also more likely not just to receive but to be able to receive. Our modern mentality is impregnated with the opposite idea. After centuries of individualism, we have reached the extreme in the "I-generation". Seek self. Identify self. Create self. Don't bind or commit self. Be different, even if that means being lonely. There is the philosophy and psychology which explain precisely why there is so much loneliness in the West today. Be unique even if this means being isolated. Be yourself, even if you don't