A couple of months ago I was reading this book that spent a lot of time talking about how every person should have an over-arching mission for their life. Instead of letting your life be defined by a job, it should be defined by the legacy that you want to leave behind you when you're gone.
Jobs and occupations, especially these days, can be volatile and temporary, so taking your identity from what you get paid for is sometimes a losing proposition. Taking your identity from your mission in life (which will, if you're lucky, include your job sometimes) is a much more satisfying experience and encompasses your whole life instead of just the hours between 9 and 5.
Reading that book made me sit down and try and figure out what my goal in life was. Clearly, as a Christian, I have a goal to try and follow God and honor him with my life - but what does that look like inside of my specific situation? What was I made for?
I think I've figured out that I'm supposed to tell stories. For edification. For entertainment. On blogs. On stage. On video. In print. By myself. With others. Through others. I feel like I have this thing inside of me that wants to write and produce stories. So that's what I'm trying to do. Maybe it'll change as I get older and wiser, but for now, that's what I see.
What about you? What are you made for? What is it that, when you're dead, you want people to look back at your life and remember? What's your mission in life, whether you're accomplishing it or not?
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
What were you made for
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well... when I was younger, I KNEW my mission in life was to be a Rock Star. Specifically, the lead singer of an all male rock band. Everytime i heard "Heart" do Barracuda, i thought "that should be me!". Now i'm a bit more realistic, and hopefully, a little less shallow. I know my mission in life revolves around children in one fashion or another (having 10 children, i know this comes as a shock). I want to raise chidren who live lives that glorify God, and fulfill His purposes (pretty broad statement, i know). I want to live a life that enriches the lives of children- however that may be, whether it's my own children or children on a mission field somewhere (I keep picturing in my mind a 3 year old Haitian boy- not sure what that means...) I guess I am fortunate because my job happens to fit my life mission in a way too. I work in a neo-natal intensive care unit, so i get to help sick/premature babies get off to a good start. And i get to love and slobber all over babies when i get that urge to have a tiny one of my own:) I love my job, it's the best!
I think i have a general idea of my life mission; i'm just trying to stay out of His way, and figure out what all the details are!
Rhonda P.
Thanks Rhonda, that was awesome.
Honestly, for years my life mission was to "payback" my earthly father for wronging me in such a terrible way.
Now, with the help of others and the realization of who Christ is and what he has done for me... I now live to be the kind of father I never had to my own children, and to teach them how much their heavenly Father loves them also.
Thanks for that. I like the turn-around.
i think my purpose is to be a positive role model for kids. luckily, i'm able to do this daily as an inner city kindergarten teacher. i'm not preaching the bible to them, but i am their ONE example of someone positive that they can count on to love them no matter what they do or how much they hate themselves sometimes.
it may not seem like much to some, but i feel that i am making more a difference in my classroom than i would on a trip to mexico or guatemala.
these are my babies and i live for them.
E. Rice
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