PURPOSE

This is a quick/short blog but I had to share this. It touches close to home for me right now and after reading it, my thought process has been changed and spirits have been lifted. I hope you all enjoy "For Showing Me Purpose" as much as I did/do.

Don't worry, I have so many exciting things to share since I last wrote but on a bit of a time crunch right now so..... I'll have to save it for when a get a little more time.

FOR SHOWING ME PURPOSE

"I AM grateful, God, that I have finally come to realize your purpose for me.

Just when or how this came about I can't say. It wasn't sudden and dramatic, the way it happened to Paul on the road to Damascus, or Peter Marshall with his experience on the Scottish moors.

There have been no visions, no voices, no letters written in fire upon a wall saying "Do this." "Do that." "This is your reason for being"

No, my search for you and for the meaning you had for my life has been uncertain, groping, erratic, filled with accident, false goals. Sometimes I seemed to sense that purpose, clearly see it; but it vanished like a mirage in the harried, often cruel business of everyday.

Yet somehow you keep track of your floundering creatures. Maybe because life is so filled with defeat and heartbreak, we find ourselves turning to you, yielding ourselves to your will, fighting less furiously for selfish, often empty goals. And when this happens we find that you have turned our suffering and our failures into little stepping stones.

Looking back, we see them. These rocks which gradually, all unknown to us, you have been shaping to lead us toward our purpose...And we have been following! However, blindly, however zigzag the course, yet we have been moving toward it.

And looking about, we see there are results. There are signals, hearening little affirmations, unexpected proofs.

However humble our circumstances or undramatic our talents, our true purpose has been revealed. We were meant to be this person at this time and place. Not only for ourselves, but for you and other people --we were meant to make this particular contribution to the world.

And so we must do it well. Do it with faith and patience, with all our strength and passion. And in so doing discover who we really are"

~Margorie Holmes