Today a truth has been revealed. Even if we are highly educated and have a great job, it might not be there tomorrow. Even if we tuck as much as we can into our retirement funds, it might be gone tomorrow. Even if we live to retirement, our lives might be gone tomorrow. With so much uncertainty, why would anyone spend their strongest years giving 8-12 hours a day to something that we bare or hate.
I must be admit, "I absolutely enjoy working in real estate." I love what I do. Providing a service at a very high level. Serving friends, and new clients who also become friends. Connecting people to each other. Protecting the interests of my clients. Seeing people accomplish a major goal in life. I get a rush... a sense of purpose everyday being a part of the real estate industry.
Purpose? Does everyone have purpose? Looking at Jaymin, and thinking about all the children with Down's Syndrome or other special needs, I had to wrestle with the purpose for these children. Jaymin has only been in our home now for 4.5 months, but he has a purpose in our family ... already! Then I started finding videos like this one below. I am sure many have seen how this autistic boy did the impossible, but I can watch this a hundred times.
What we do or did, should NOT define us. Before J-Mac had he historic night in 2006 he
was an inspiration. An "opportunity" special needs children have is they have less expectations put on them by many of us so they get to focus on their strengths: and worry less about being like everyone else.
I have come to the conclusion that "special needs" children are labeled incorrectly. They might be less likely to win a spelling bee, or a gold medal in the olympics, but they often live life fully; whereas many "normal" people are depressed, hate work, spend their life earning money, working jobs they hate, for the purpose of spending money so they can impress the people they don't like.
What is the point? We all have purpose. God engineered us at birth with strengths to complete our purpose. We are not defined by what we do, but we are defined by our purpose. Schools these days often incorrectly teach us to learn skills so we earn money. Is our purpose in life to earn money? How stupid. Do we go to work these days just for money? Shouldn't there be more to life than making money? If you think there is more to life than making money, check out this video:
If we don't get killed along the way or get a terminal sickness we could live 70-100 years.
Why not live a life using strengths to live a purposeful life. After all, a man gaining great wealth, but not using his skill to accomplish his God given purpose would be like having a beautiful $100,000 car and never driving it, but turning it into a home. It would be a waste. I have to think God is more concerned about us living to fulfill our purpose, rather than doing a job we hate just to earn money.
JR McGee
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