Don't forget what you came to do

...as if a king had sent you to a foreign country with a task to perform.  You go and perform many other tasks. But if you fail to perform the task for which you were sent, it will be as if you had done nothing at all.
Rumi

The Quote

I love this quote.  I came a cross it in a book by Carol Adrienne entitled Find Your Purpose, Change Your Life. (Quill; 1999).  The book is an intuitive directed guide to helping readers find what that special purpose is that they were born for.

A Special Purpose?

Do you believe that you have a special purpose?  Do you think that you came into this life with a divinely  supported mission?  Or do you believe that what you accomplish while alive is all randomly directed by chance and opportunity ( or lack of)?

I believe...and no...I do not know...but I believe ( or at least want to believe) that we all have special missions.  Not all will be elaborate and world changing as finding the cure for cancer or composing a piece of music or literature that will inspire and heal all humans from suffering...but we all have something important to do....something that will make the world a better place. 

We may flitter around through life doing a million different things but if those things are not in sync with what we are here to do, we will feel a sense of emptiness in the core of our being.  We are only truly fulfilled, according to Adrienne, when we are living on purpose.

How will we know if we are on purpose:

• We will feel passionate about what we are doing.  work will be effortless, fun and exciting.
• We will know we are providing a service to the world
• We will feel in tune with what we are doing, motivated, absorbed, resourceful and energized.
• Fear will no longer be holding us back.  We will have this sense that we can handle anything.
• Life will  open up to us when we do what it asks us to do: things will work out, money will flow in, people will show up at the right time and in the right places

                                                                                               (Adrienne; 1999)

Too many of us get caught off track by habit, thought, trying to keep up with the Joneses...that we "forget" why we are here.  We sometimes need to spend time attempting to remember...especially if we feel empty and unfulfilled.  Rediscover what that purpose is...what that dream is that burns inside you...and live it. 

We have only so much time  in this life to do what the King has sent us to do.  Let's do it!  We will be happier for it and the world will be a better place!

All is well in my world.

Resources:
Adrienne, Carol ( 1999) Find Your Purpose, Change Your Life. New York: Quill