Purpose is such a strong word to so many people.  We struggle with what our purpose is in this world.  Our spirits, our faith, our desires keep reminding us that we need to find our purpose in this world.  For most, it’s discouraging!  Unfortunately, this is the truth!  When we think about what our purpose is or if what we are doing every day is serving our purpose… it depresses our emotions.  But it doesn’t have to.  It DOESN’T!  I promise you this!  When you think about what your purpose is, I challenge you to not get sad or feel defeated, but to FIND your purpose!!!  The main thing, though, that you have to remember, is you have multiple purposes.  MULTIPLE!  Look back on your life.  I KNOW with 100% confidence, that you have served a purpose in someone’s life, including your own!  Are you a parent?  You had kids!  Purpose!  Are you an intellectual?  You showed a professor that his/her class was worth it! Purpose!  Are you a lower/middle class employee?  You served a purpose showing up for your job today! Purpose!  We serve MULTIPLE purposes!  Most we may not get publicly acknowledged for them… but you have to get away from what everyone THINKS about you and know and exude the confidence that YOU are the reason the task was completed! Purpose!

This may sound silly, please bare with me.  I was writing in my book about a week ago and I’d gotten a phone call.  Or…I made a phone call…I don’t know… sometimes I get inspired and called to call someone randomly and lift them up! :). Anyway… when I talk on the phone, I pace… it’s hereditary!  My mom used to get tangled up in the phone cord (yes, young ones…. phones used to have cords!) when she would talk on the phone.  My brother used to, and probably still does, open and shut the front door 2,476 times during a phone conversation and talked with his hands so much that I was convinced he’d become a mime!  While I was hereditarily pacing, I found a chewed up, spit out, thrown about football in my yard.  Living in the country, we have a lot of “land dogs” that roam about and do as they will (one of them belongs to me… sweet Bella)…. I’m sure one of them put it in my yard!  Nonetheless, for whatever reason, I decided, during my phone call, to pick up that abused football and put it on my porch next to where I sit when I write.  I didn’t know why.  But what I DID know, was that I would SOON know why!  A few days later, my husband and I were outside, in my spot, talking about life.  He picked up the football.  I calmly asked him to place it back where he’d found it.  He asked, “why????”….I told him, “I don’t know… but I do know that I need you to put it back.”. He did so, reluctantly, and almost judgingly.  His wife had gone insane!  🙂

I’ve had a bad week at work.  It’s been rough.  I found myself, on the way home today, thinking about the football.  You see, on the way out of my driveway this morning, I found it in my yard again.  The place that I’d found it originally.  I know it was the dogs.  That’s ok.  But my mind could not stop reeling around that football.  I feel as if the purpose of the football was to discuss PURPOSE!  The football was invented and manufactured for a purpose.  We all know what that purpose was so I won’t dive into that! (Go Packers!).

It does not serve the same purpose now.  BUT… it DOES serve a purpose!  A cute little squishy, wishy, independent dog has found a new, favorite toy!  DId the football, or the inventor of the football, know that this would happen?  Nope!  It was designed, by man, for one purpose and one purpose only!  To play the GAME of football!

I say all that to say, and I know this is probably my longest blog post yet, that you don’t only have one purpose in this world.  You have many.  So stop getting discouraged and allowing your emotions to take a negative turn when you are seeking your purpose!  You may decide, today, that <insert purpose here> is your purpose.  That’s amazing!  That’s freaking FANTASTIC!  Work towards that!  Educate yourself, research, pray, STRIVE to reach that!  However, 3 years from now, you may feel you have a different purpose.  That’s OKAY!!!!  Start working towards THAT!  Chances are, in 5 years, you are going to look back and realize that, working for 3 years to serve a purpose you’d thought you had, educated you and motivated you to reach your newly found purpose!  DO IT!  Go for it!!!!!  It’s yours! Own it!!!!! Don’t give 2 flying duck poo’s about what someone thinks about you changing your purpose!  You have MANY!  I know I do!!!!

Bye for now,

RR