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PURPOSE MAY NOT BE FLASHY
I have a
pal named Hoyle Picklesimer I love to josh with. One day at lunch I
asked, "Hoyle, have you ever wondered what you are here for?"
He asked, "What do you mean?"
I said, "What you were put here to do. What your purpose is?"
He replied, "No, I never have."
I said, "I find it hard to believe that! But I'll tell you why you
were put here."
"OK. Why was I put here?"
"Hoyle, it was revealed to me that you were put here so I would
have someone to play with."
He thought a few moments and replied, "Well, I'll say one thing. I
have fulfilled my calling."
As funny as this conversation was to me, I think it is entirely possible
that our purposes can be simple and non-flashy. Helen Keller's teacher
spent her life teaching one little blind, deaf girl. Maybe she was
thinking she would teach thousands and get little thank you notes from
one of students when he became president, or won the marathon, or some
such flashy venture.
It is possible your purpose is exactly what you are doing. Maybe the
flashiness is in the intensity of our commitment. Maybe it is in the
soul arena, where we know we have given it our all.
I feel as good about feeding birds all my life as I do about being in an
elected office for 16 years. I know I saved one one-legged Cardinal from
certain death and we had a beautiful friendship for five years.
There is no need for us to attach degrees of importance to what we do.
To do that is actually an ego thing. God created a world where we have
all kinds of tasks, seemingly big and small, but if God created the
world this way, who is to say any work is "small"?
God looked at it and said, "It is good." Let us say it all is
good.
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