Who says you have more time when you get older? Golden age, my buttocks!!!

Lately, I've been thinking about living and it's relationship relative to our 'existence' in our Western culture. What is it about us and our culture that reduces life to a joyless, souless existence. Where is the disciples' exuberance over the fact that we are alive in the beautiful world God made for us? Why are we not singing and dancing out of sheer joy? After all, we know that our Redeemer lives. Why is it that we just 'show up'? Why do we make life so difficult? Why do we take everything so seriously? I look around and one thing I rarely see..smiles. Go to church and what do you see...mostly gloomy faces. My heavens, we have the Bread of Life!
We can recite bible verses by the score but never put them into operation in our lives. I sometimes wonder if we really believe what we profess to believe.
Depressing? Yes. How to change after a lifetime of cultural training? Not sure. Perhaps one thing to do is to live intentional lives, turning off the autopilot. Maybe we have to combine our will with the power of the Holy Spirit to 'intend' to be light and salt. All I know is that I'm tired of going through life just existing. I don't think God intended it to be this way.