The Mission
"I'm on a mission!" he told me.
"What is this mission?" I asked.
"To find what my purpose is in life," he replied.
"Have you been on this mission long?"
"I'm 56. I've been in search of it all of my life," he said.
"How sad!" I told him.
He was shocked to hear that from me. He stood speechless and
confused. He knows I love to hear stories about people on a
mission. I have a great admiration for those living life on
purpose.
"Why would you say that?"
"My friend, you have spent a lifetime in search of your
purpose. Obviously you believe you have not yet found it."
"No, I haven't."
"Then you have wasted your life!" I told him.
He abruptly sat down.
"Why would you think that?"
"You have spent a lifetime in search of what you already
had. In an effort to discover some glorious mission, some
grand plan for your life, you have missed it entirely, " I
told him.
"What have I missed?"
"You!" I said emphatically. "God created each of us so
uniquely, so precisely, that we are truly one of a kind.
Genetically there is no one else like you. To make us even
more unique, our personalities differ because of our life
experiences. The people and places, the pains and powers of
our lives make each of us unique."
"So what is my purpose?"
"Your purpose is to take each day granted you and apply
everything you are to it. To blend into that 24 hours your
uniqueness, your spirit, your personality, your genetic
exclusivity, your unequaled, unmatched, even unprecedented
and exceptional self, is in fact fulfilling the very mission
God has assigned to you. Being fully you completes His plan
for the world that day."
He sat quietly thinking about what I had told him. Then,
rising suddenly, he turned to me and said, "Then I have a
lot to do today, don't I?"
So do you!
"I believe in you!" Bob Perks
Bob@BobPerks.com
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