Response to Danielle Sallade's essay

By Shane Buxman
In Danielle Sallade’s essay, “Human Flourishing”, she describes a normal college student’s life as full of work, study, involvement, work, etc. All this amounts to college kids exercising so much control over their lives that become burnt out. Sallade condemns this type of lifestyle for a Christian and I have to agree with her.
For one, this control is man trying to earn praise by man’s standards, which is completely against what we should be doing. We were created to praise and love God and to follow His will. If God wants us to have a high paying job or be the president of the United States, then He will get you there. One doesn’t have to join every club, sacrifice days of sleep, and sacrifice personal time with God in order to make this goal for God wants you to focus on Him and He will get you there. If God wants you to volunteer as a teacher full time, He will provide the food and necessities that you will need as long as you focus on Him.
God wants us to work so that we can praise Him with our hands, but He also wants us to rest so that we can praise Him with our hearts. If we are constantly going, we don’t make time for a quite time with God and without this quite time, one will quickly burn out and find no joy in their success. Our greatest success in life, as Christians, is to live God’s will, not to have a lot of money at the expense of our sanity.