All things besides God, ipsum esse (ultimate being itself), are incomplete in some part of their being. Yet it is this existential incompleteness that fuels the drama of a person’s life. All human beings are always aware, consciously or unconsciously, of the unfulfillment of one’s current state and of the necessary striving towards a more perfect state of being. Traditionally, the story of one’s life, though, can either become a comedy in its success, or a tragedy in its failure, depending on how the characters act in the play that is this human experience. Regardless of success or failure, this striving toward completeness is what one could call the striving for a good life. All men seek the good, just as Aristotle points out in the first line of his Metaphysics, that all men seek to know. All men seek what is perceived by them as beneficial towards that completeness. Hence the age old question has returned to the mind of every man, “What is a good life?”. What is the way in which one should navigate this human experience to avoid coming to a bad end?
In Genesis 3:8 one learns that God walked with Adam and Eve every day in the Garden of Eden and conversed with them. The intimacy of direct counsel with God, though, was lost through the Original Sin. But what if humans could get a semblance of that back? What if one could once again hear the voice of God guiding them in their daily life? Would this not result in a life well-lived to have the Divine-guide with oneself to tell one what not to do, to comfort, to encourage, and to correct one in the particular situations of life?
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