Why? Why?

I have been struggling with blog for the past few weeks.  I thought initially it was suppose to be getting to your Why! Why am I here? but it seems that it is deeper.  Lately, I have been asking the question Why? Why do some people die at such a young age? Why am I still single? Why would a person go in and kill innocent people?  Why did I make this decision over another?

I realize that life is about asking the question that begin with Why? so that we can figure out the How of life?  Sometimes God will reveal the answer to me about Why certain things are happening in my life or in the world.  Other times, He keeps me pondering the question so that I can stay closer to Him.

So one of my questions is Why am I here?  What is my purpose?  I gain glimpses of what my purpose on occasion and then I begin to question the How will this get done.  It is not for me to figure it all out at one time so I realize it continues to be about my faith walk and me being obedient to the call. 

I attended a training a couple of weeks ago.  The facilitator shared an exercise with us to help us to live in integrity with our authentic self.  The training was actually about a parenting program.  We were asked to take a sheet of paper and fold it in half. On one side of the paper, we listed people that we admired (alive, dead, and superhuman).  On the other side, we listed attributes and traits that we admired in each person.  Next, we circled common words that were found on the list.  After listing the common traits, the facilitator asked use to list them on a card because these qualities are who we are authentically next to I am........

The next part of the assignment was to list  what we would do if money and time was not a problem.  Then we had to look for themes and list these.  The next list was my intention to be....... The final question was ask...what is keep us from doing these things.

Begin to answer your WHY!

Living in Your Why

Yesterday while serving at a ministry fair, I had the opportunity to serve with a lady that blessed me with her story.  She shared with me how she lived in fear for so long in her life that she felt that she had missed her purpose in life.  As we continued to talked she share with me that she had worked for a major retail store for over 20 years at the customer service desk.  I was in awe about her commitment to serving the public in such a capacity.  She stated that she tries to encourage individuals that she comes in contact with and she may just pray with them. I can only imagine the impact that she is having on others even when they are coming in to complain about something or return something. 

This lady continued to share with me how she sets out to be a blessing to people at least twice a month.  She gets nominations from people about who they would like to receive a blessing and she will take a day to bless the individual.  She shared with me that recently she went to a nursing home to bless an 83 year old lady.  She took her flowers, candy, a prayer book, and just spent some quality time with the lady.  The lady was so blessed that she shared her blessing with others by sharing her gifts with others. 

At the end of our conversation, she said I am still trying to find out what I want to be when I grow up.  I was taken back for a moment because I could see that she was walking in her why by being a blessing to others. 

Sometimes our Why is not some big grand thing such as being a famous artist or millionaire but we can impact the people around us by living in our Why.