What Do You Believe?

There are so many things I’m still learning in this life that fades as quickly as the morning sun each day. Each day, I grow wiser, thinking, “At some point, we have to get to a place where we know enough to just be, right?” Each and every day though, I find that the answer is a resounding, “NO!” Here are a mish-mosh of thoughts, not necessarily strung together (as my brain seldom works that way)…

How do some people exist not believing in a higher power? How do they able to live without acknowledging that something beyond themselves keeps this crazy world going? Who really thinks that we are the result of a huge BANG!? Who really thinks that given another 1,000 years we may morph into some higher or more intelligent being, as homo sapiens can’t be the evolutionary process, can it? Idiots walking around creating their own truths despite the obvious signs that there’s more to this life than we can ever fathom? If this is it, all we have to live for - ourselves, pleasure, and things, then this whole experiment, or whatever it is, is a sham.

I choose to believe we each have a purpose. Yes, you water delivery men, housekeepers, freeway trash pickers, you all have a purpose. What you think you’re doing just to get by serves a much greater purpose. The attitude with which you provide your service or do your work speaks volumes about who you are and where you’re capable of going in this life. Where you are today is not indicative of where you will be tomorrow, unless that’s where you want to remain.

Of recent, I’ve realized just how much I limit myself. In talking to others, I say one thing about my current situation and how dire things often seem to get, but there are those who seem to swoop in right in the nick of time to remind me of where I am capable of going. If I just believe in the gifts and talents I’ve been given and how I can amount to much more than I so simply strive toward, I’d be alright. However, we allow our present circumstances direct our actions and speak for us.

For beings who just got here randomly, as a result of vapors or whatever else, we sure have some great insight, intuition, and wisdom. However, we believe in coincidences and run with all kinds of strange theories. We put one and three together and get five every time. We tend to miss the big picture before us. Life is more than just things and what we can obtain. Our relationships, hope, and faith play a big factor in the people we are capable of becoming. Nothing comes from nothing. We all have a mission on this earth and need to seek it out.

Coincidences? I don’t believe in them. I believe everything occurs for a reason; nothing happens by chance. Before you take the time to throw yourself a pity party to which others decline attendance, think about your life and those in it. How can YOU make a difference in someone else’s life? When we take the focus off ourselves, we tend to see life a little differently, and we often find that our issues are rather non-existent in comparison to what others around you are going through.

There was no funny-looking ape who eventually became me. There was no cataclysmic birth of the universe. If we search deeper, the heart of creation is relationship. Once we neglect to realize that, our focus becomes skewed. We take our focus off our fellow man and place it on the mundane and things we were supposed to have dominion over. At the heart of it all, there’s more to this life than we can ever imagine. So our hatred for others and fight for the irrelevant has to end. Our purpose is to love, serve, and give our all. No big bang or evolutionary process could teach us that or encourage to get up and dust ourselves off after a fall. I need you. You need me. We need Him.