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| Don't Let Your Life Be Like Musical Chairs... Your Purpose is YOURS and YOURS alone! It Is What Makes YOU Special! Get Quiet, Be Still and Listen... It's as Plain as The Nose on Your Face. |
How strange it is... When you think about... We spend all our lives searching for a purpose. Most of the time that purpose is as plain as the nose on our faces. It is so clear, that we sometimes miss the simplicity of it all... The gifts you have been bestowed - are gifts that perhaps you take for granted, because you have been doing them all of your life. Maybe it began with a gift for music - your parents had you take piano lessons, and your gift expanded. Maybe you saw it more as "becoming a well rounded individual" then a gift you were suppose to use throughout the course of your life....
He created us each with a purpose. My guess is that that purpose is one that we were born with and have spent all of our lives trying to discover. How ironic is that when you think about it? Everyone has certain things about that them that make them special. How ironic is it that more often than not we don't even see those very gifts as special? We take them for granted, we shrug them off. We become like dogs chasing their tails when all the time the answer was right before us....
We were born with a purpose. We were born with individual gifts. Kind of like a napsack full of things to get you through this journey called life. Things that make up your personality. Who you are..... Do you know what those gifts are? Have you figured them out yet? Maybe the things that have happened in your life have made you deaf to the very things that make you special?
There is so much noise around us. the noise of the world, the noise of our problems. Louder and faster and more problems and more distractions - until we are SPINNING with it. Faster and faster and faster we whirl, sometimes not even being able to take a breath before something else captures our attention and distracts us further. Sometimes the noise of life is so loud that we don't *hear* the beauty in the life God gave us. Like a scene in a movie where you see someone's lips moving, but you can't hear what they are saying. Or maybe it's the pace of our lives... We seem to go faster and faster. Our days are filled with so much that we think needs to be done that the hours so quickly speed by.... I had a thought today, that the same game that we played as little children - one called "Musical Chairs" has become a grown up version.... We are walking in the midst of crowds, going faster and faster and faster trying to live up to expectations that society has perhaps deemed important. Kind of like trying to grab the seat before someone else does. What are we trying to prove and to who? More often then not - I think it is to ourselves.... What has to go on in our lives in order for us to be considered "good enough" or "prosperous enough" or "successful enough" the world's standards of this change constantly. And the noise gets louder, and our purpose gets quieter, and our sense of frusturation grows. We don't know who we are, why we are, where we are or where we are going...
We were created to serve a purpose. We were created in love with a purpose in mind. Somewhere along the way, we forgot the reason.... If we're not careful we'll miss it in totalilty and at the end of the song of our lives, we'll realize that the very thing we wanted most of all - love, peace of mind, happiness, well being - we had the tools to have that "abundancy" that God created us to have, the whole time. We just weren't paying attention...
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