What's Your Purpose?

What are you doing here?  No, really what is your purpose in being here?  This is a question I have asked myself since I was old enough to think of such aspects of this thing we call…our lives.

What are we doing here?  I can tell you what my faith tells me.  I can tell you what my faith has answered me on this most important of questions.  If you care to hear the answer…then we have something in common with each other.  We’ve both been searching for so long for an answer; an answer that gives everything around us meaning and worth.    This is what my faith says:

“Seek love, it is what you were created to do and when and if you find true love…share it.  Share the journey that got you where you are today with your love…so others may find the hidden path that led you to the answer you seek”.

What other purpose resonates with every man, woman and child on this planet then to have our main purpose in life be to…seek to find, or create where absent…love.  Life would be so grand; we wouldn’t even know hate existed!!!  The concept of evil would be foreign to us…for we seek and create…love.

In your busy day today…try and find some love…create some love and share some love.  It comes in many forms and fashions.  It comes in many sizes and colors, but it’s out there and it’s inside you too.

A very wise man said many years ago….”in your day do three things everyday…laugh, cry and think…if you do these three things… laugh, cry and think every day…then you’ve had a good day…every day.”

That speech resonated with me…given by a man riddled with cancer, who knew his days were truly numbered on this earth…,well he found a way to love and the love he created has touched millions.

There are no words that can be added to Jimmy V’s ESPY speech.  It stands to me as what the power of communication can do.  It’s said information is power, well that is true and it is exponentially amplified in its power….when it is shared.  Never has the power of communication been greater than it is today.

We can’t add words to Jimmy V’s speech…but we can laugh, cry and think about the man and his words.  We can reflect on his life story… so well documented as those that live in the spot light can be.  And we can think about what his words mean to us today.

What purpose did Coach Jimmy V have besides winning at college basketball?  Oh my friend if you don’t know the answer to that by now…please listen to his words again and again if you have too…and I hope you will at some point hear it…it’s there…it’s sought, created and shared.

With your remaining days of this physical thing we call life…find it your purpose to love in three ways everyday…seek it…create it…and share it.  If you do these three things every day and know that the ultimate sacrifice of love was done on your behalf…than your remaining days will be good…as well as those in the afterlife. 

This is what my faith has said to me and my faith is not hope, it is reality.

My purpose in this life was stated very clearly on this blog at the beginning of this year.  I do not question the role I play in God’s plans…because I don’t know them.  All we can do is seek to find and hold with all our convictions what we have found…but not too close…for Love is meant to be shared.

Romans  Chapters 4 and 5....Matthew Chapter 7...Have a Love filled day.