What is life's purpose?

Today is the first day (in about 5 days) that I am beginning to feel normal.  I was sucker punched by that Flu going around and maaaaannnn is it a doozy!  In between my headache, body aches, hot flashes - no wait cold flashes - darn it I'm hot again and many other uncomfortable experiences I won't discuss. I fond myself lying in the bed, tossing of course as I could only lay in one position for soo long, thinking about life and all of the things I would rather be doing.

I am not sure what makes us get reflective when we feel like pooh, maybe we are in touch with our mortality?  Anyway, I reflected on what the purpose of life was and rediscovered that time is neutral, we simply choose what we fill it with.  Now that I had nothing but time, because my brain was unable to function on any level above LOW, I chose to spend some quiet moments with my family.  I make sure I spend plenty of time with my family, it is usually the active variety.  Now I was having simple conversations (key word simple) and reading this book, "Trail Mix" with my youngest son.  He took a liking to the book because it is full of short stories about how kids close to his age overcame obstacles.  Although some of these kids really had some roadblocks, they all persevered.

Then it slowly hit me, life's purpose is to make wise choices with the time you have because none of us have a drama free life.  When drama, trauma, or pain hit we call into question what our purpose is.  That purpose has not changed, it is to be the salt of the earth and show this in our daily lives.  Choices are powerful and what better way to share our purpose than through example.  We do not always know what the will of God is for our lives, in times when we are not sure we can follow the principles in the Bible and this may be light that leads us to our purpose.

Often times I tell the youth I work with (and those around me), "follow that which you love so much to do that you would do it for free".  The odds are you will do 'this' very well because you are not doing it for any other reason than for the love of it.  God has given each one of us the tools we need, we have to pull them out of the shed, sharpen them and put them to good work.  Each of our purposes starts with Faith!


Psalms 16:11 (KJV) says, "Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore."

Blessings,

-d