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Tag: purpose
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Having a mission, purpose and/ or cause for our life is vital to our ability to weather afflictions and setbacks. It also helps us select opportunities out of all the choices in life. It helps us stretch a little more each day because we know and love where we are going. We feel our own worth because we realize we have a unique life that no one else can give. It is important that there is chosen -- or really, discovered -- only one focus for the entire life. We sta... Read More
Here is a summary (a repeat) of the principles that I have presented in the past several blogs. 1. Before birth into our present mortal and probationary existence, we were nurtured and taught by our infinitely loving Father. After we pass away from mortality, experience continues. 2. Today is a gift from God: a place in time (the only place!) for the opportunity for my life to be built and for the goodness of God to enter the world through my agency. ... Read More
[I wrote this in 1997.] That profound, sure destiny: unfailing life. Unfailing life -- the godly marriage of love's dynamism with truth's holy stability. But here and now we are touched by the nature of death. I am not only nor even really speaking of that gate through which we will all pass away from MORTALITY -- but more relevantlly, every moment we feel the influence of the power of loss, corruption, captivity, hardening, darkening, incapacity, and destruction.... Read More
[I wrote this in August 1997] As I am writing this, it is July 3, 1997. In other words -- Today. I love that word, that idea. Today. God gave me today -- a space I hold in my hands. It is full of raw energy, divine potential. It is full of resources a loving Father provides, that I hope to use to build a space, a time, that allows the goodness of God to enter this world. And meanwhile, build myself! This time that is marked at the beginning... Read More
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