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Purpose in Life

To enjoy the gift that God has given you.  Enjoy life, it is a journey and if you enjoy it, you will learn more along the way.  Live, Love, Laugh!  Live life to the fullest!  Love with all your heart!  Help other people who are not as fortunate as you are.  God, gave you that gift to see what you would do with it.  And, Laugh every time you have an opportunity.  And, laugh at the troubles that jump in front of you and try to derail you from enjoying life.

Purpose is the place where your deep gladness meets the world’s needs. ---  Frederick Buechner

A Reason, Season or a Lifetime

People come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.

Choices that Change Lives

Many people waste precious time searching to find their purpose and joy in life; when it waits right in front of them for their discovery all the time.  They forget to count their blessings and be thankful for what they have.  After a life threatening illness and a long recovery, I had wasted some precious time trying to find my purpose and forgot to look right in front of me for the answer.  I forgot to count my blessings and be happy with what was right there for me to appreciate.  Like most people wondering what is my purpose?  Why has God given me this day?  What should I do with it?  The book by Hal Urban was one of the best books I’ve picked up and read in a very long time.  It put my purpose in life into perspective that I could understand.  The book is so easy to follow and so well organized. I’ve taken only a few quotes from his book.  There are many more worthy of reading.

Stop just a minute and THINK about what your choices and your actions will do not only to your life, but to those around you.  People choose to be giving or taking.  They decide if they will have empathy for others or be self centered and heartless.  You choose if you will forgive someone or feel resentment towards them for whatever it is that they have done to you.  Sometimes people even plan ways to get revenge.  It is hard to forgive, but you must forgive others for their mistakes, we are only human and we all make them. 

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.  --- James Allen

A man is what he thinks about all day long.  ---  Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are what you are because of what goes on in your mind.  Zig Zigler

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.   ---  John W. Gardner

Check out his website:  www.halurban.com

Life is a Gift From God

Song of Songs (Right after Ecclesiastes in your bible) Poems about grown up love between a man and a woman written by Solomon.  It was written for grown ups to help them understand love and marriage.  It should be required reading before the preacher will conduct the ceremony.  God intends the love between a husband and a wife to be special.  Modern day experts are nearly unanimous in arguing that the poem is a celebration of God’s gift of Love and Sexuality.  The passionate compliments continue flowing, as husband and wife praise each other and even more boldly describe their physical desires for one another. 

Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm.  For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as enduring as the grave.  Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame.  Many waters cannot quench love, nor can rivers drown it.  If a man tried to buy love with all his wealth, his offer would be utterly scorned.  (It is “more powerful than death, stronger than the grave….It cannot be bought, no matter what is offered”)  Song of Songs 8:6-7

Even so, I have noticed one thing, at least, that is good.  It is good for people to eat, drink and enjoy their work under the sun during the short life God has given them, and to accept their lot in life.  And it is a good thing to receive wealth from God and the good health to enjoy it.  To enjoy your work and accept your lot in life—this is indeed a gift from God.  God keeps such people so busy enjoying life that they take no time to brood over the past.  Ecclesiastes 5:18 (After living a long and luxurious life, Solomon concludes that it’s simple things that matter most.  “What is the best thing to do in the short life that God has given us?” Solomon asks.  “I think we should enjoy eating, drinking, and working hard.  This is what God intends for us to do”)

To discover more fulfillments in life, read the parables of Jesus about the kingdom of heaven.  Mathew 13 has several.  They help put life on earth in context of eternal life, and encourage us to give our attention to things of greatest value.

Books I’d Recommend

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Choices that change lives by Hal Urban

A boy called IT by David Pelzer

The Glass Castle

It’s not about me by Max Lucado

The Bible (It is actually full of some great stuff)