do you beileve that you were put in this world for a reason?

Question

cause I do, but, why or why not

Answer 1

Sure I do, I just don't know what it is. Maybe someday I will, but that just isn't important to me now.

Answer 2

My friend Jim Harris is in extremis and not expected to make it through the night. Juanita went to see him and thought he seemed to recognize her.

There just seems to be a lot of death around. My friend Tom is going through it with his mother, and is rather upset. She is dying of emphysema and CHF, the result of 60 years of heavy smoking. I don't suppose one could ask for a longer life for a smoker, but she could have made this time easier for herself.

Jeff Davis luckily survived the gunshot wound and is now home, but can't work the summer job he wanted. He has a plate and screws in his arm. One of the perpetrators, a man already wanted for murder, was apprehended; the other remains on the loose.

We die in the night. We say our prayers if we can, and hope for the best. It will be wonderful if there is a far shore where we will meet again. What will Mozart have come up with between then and now? Will Muffin be there to greet me with barks and kisses?

A friend who had finished his PhD in philosophy at Chapel Hill and was leaving for his teaching job on the west coast stuck out his hand and said, "Goodbye forever." Probably true, though we might have run into each other somewhere, someday. But I returned the sentiment, and I don't worry about him often.

An ancient and wizened Shinto priest climbed slowly up a long flight of stairs to a small rustic shrine among very old hillside trees; there he set about lighting eight hundred candles. As the night gathered about him, he sat before that carpet of flickering lights, keeping watch. He became one with the night and the sea of candles, and kept to his work, which was only to be glad to have been able to see a thing of such beauty and rarity.

He watched, and was glad. Maybe he slept a little, and the candles made their silent song under the ancient trees in the faint hillside breeze. The priest's lights repeated the manner of the stars that filled the inaccessible part of the night, far away but visible.

In the first light of day, the candles, imitating the stars, began to flicker and go out, one by one, until the room was a place of shadows and outlines and the aged priest was finally all alone.

Slowly he rose and returned down the long stairs to his hut, where he took a little porridge and lay down to sleep. Later in the day, he would teach.


Job’s Physics

So I went forth into the bitterness of morning
My heart bowed low and full of edges
By reason of the chastisement of Holy Job

To wonder if it matters whether the spider
Spinning its web knows what it is doing
Or if the quantum nature of light argues

For or against divine mercy


--June 25, 2000

Spiritually mature people know about the void out there. Spiritually mature people know that prayer is the time to become quiet and set aside the pressures and furies of the moment, so that you can become attuned, at least temporarily, to the reality that is inside yourself.

Contemplate what can be known. All atoms are made of empty space and electric charges. That is, nothing. Reality exists on a scale we cannot comprehend, and in quantum physical terms, matter does not exist at all.

Thus it is true that we are created in God's image. God is made of empty space and electric charges, and so are we. Thus we are the same as God. Listen to that reality inside your mind. When you have done so, you have become spiritually mature, your expectations have become realistic, and you have engaged in true prayer.

That is how it is possible to pray while acknowledging realistically that the God of the Standard Cultural Religions does not, in fact, exist. God is imaginary. Of course God is imaginary. That is why you have an imagination.

Pray freely, but remember that real prayer is LISTENING, not speaking.

Answer 3

I think I do.

Not truly sure yet. God's people just shove me around a lot and then I'm on my own.

It has something to do with my interactions with, strong, yet reticent and even shy, but very talented females. As I've tended to many, mostly in the entertainment field. And I'm close with them all.

Also through my writing I think.

That's one of the reasons I'm here. A two fold reason. Honing my meat and potatoes skills (I don't worry much about spelling and grammar, just the substance) and also getting my theological self in order.

It separate both worlds usually. The theolical from the day to day world.

Maybe I'm destined to write a book on theology or living.

Not sure.

Like I say I get shoved in directions but then I'm on my own.

That freel will thing.

Guess God wants to see what I have and haven't figured out yet.

Answer 4

yes I do but still not sure what purpose the Lord has for me, maybe I will never know.
I know I really try to be a good testimony & do God's will but fall short. I look around & see others who make such an impact on spreading the gospel & I'm ashamed. Maybe it's just how we live our life that help others find the Lord . I would hope I have made a difference in that way.
Great question, thanks!
Lord Bless

Answer 5

Everyone was put here for a reason. Who knows? Perhaps we only figure it out on our dying breaths,saving sweetest for last. ( Or maybe u figure it out but it is too subtle to be put into words). That's why we don't know it for sure. Are we interpreting that subtle message correctly? That's the question that should be asked.

Answer 6

For You formed my inward parts;
You wove me in my mother's womb.
I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from You
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes have seen my unformed substance

AND IN YOUR BOOK WERE ALL WRITTEN
THE DAYS THAT WERE ORDAINED FOR ME
WHEN AS YET THERE WAS NOT ONE OF THEM.

Psalm 139:13-16

I was put here with a specific reason, by the God of Heaven who has a purpose and a plan for my life.

Answer 7

I think everything happens .. happens for good, even if it all looked like misery and disappointement.

You are here for a reason, you may not konw it .. but definatly you helped someone yestarday .. and you made someone's day today .. you propably will make a friend feel better tomorrow. Sweetheart you and me and everyone are here for the good.

So do you part today, and you will always see good all your life.

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

Yes I believe I was put on the planet for a reason and that reason is very apparent that I do not need to explain anymore. Don't you agree?

Answer 10

yes, to praise and rejoin with God and inherit thrones left vacant by the fallen angels when they were thrown down, and to live in heavenly bliss forever.

Answer 11

I believe I was pu in this world for a reaon, everyone was, God doesn't make people so that they can be purposeless, he makes each and everyone of us for and with a reason for being.