"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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