While You Are Here

So, what is it you want to accom­plish while you are here? This may seem to be an odd ques­tion, but it is one worth ask­ing. Most peo­ple see life as some sort of deserved right rather than a mis­sion. No won­der they feel cheated by loss, suf­fer­ing, and death. They ask, “What is in it for me?” rather than see­ing life as a greater divine task to be accomplished.

In your teen years, you out­line how you want YOUR life to go. What you miss is that it is not YOUR life. It is Life with your par­tic­i­pa­tion. True, you are part of the story, but you have to ask your­self why you are here. Surely there is more to life than just work­ing and hav­ing a fam­ily. Those are impor­tant, but until you see at least some part of the big­ger pic­ture, you may miss the point of your indi­vid­ual existence.

You are part of the grand puz­zle — not an anony­mous face in the great crowd. Take you exis­tence with some seri­ous­ness and then cel­e­brate it. You will not pass this way again. Life is more than pay­ing the bills. It is more than mere con­sump­tion. The lim­i­ta­tions placed on it are there to make it inter­est­ing. Time is not some­thing with which you can negotiate.

Once you grasp that you here for a pur­pose greater than your­self, you will notice a dig­nity that is attached to the process. You count! You mat­ter! You may well be the con­nect­ing link between an eter­nal prin­ci­ple and a lim­ited lit­tle world. Never under­es­ti­mate what it is you do while you are here.