Personal Meditation No. 99

“God didn’t create you to suck.”

Embrace the Within.

I am surprised at how many people believe in God but how few people want to embrace the idea that God has a plan for their lives . . . And that plan is about abundance.

I’ve spent a few years on this earth battling with purpose. I found a lot of things to do. I found a lot of diversions, a lot of rabbit holes, a lot of distractions but it really took what felt like a threat on my life to give me a journey. And that journey over the past few years of getting my boy and mind right, that journey of working on me, that journey of working on freedom, that journey was more than a distraction. It was a purpose.

And it is liberating to work on what needs working. There is the physical satisfaction of looking out and seeing a job completed that I has always given me pleasure. I always liked shutting down a kitchen and seeing everything in order for the next day. I have replaced that with looking over my classroom to make certain that everything is prepped for the next day as well. I also get that feeling looking out over the expanding plantation off my back porch. The feeling of accomplishment. The feeling of purpose. The feeling of a job well done.

Even when I was treating myself like a chemistry experiment, I found joy in doing a job well. I found completion and control in being able to impose order on the chaos that often surrounded me. I found a meaning in all that work. And now that I’m taking better control of my body and what I put inside it as fuel, I still can see that meaning as an underlying current to my journey all along.

I am on a journey to live healthy. I am on a journey to live free. I am on a journey to live abundantly. And, as I said, I am surprised at how many folks want to talk about God and purpose in their lives but they fight against abundance. They fight and claw and scrape together a less than life when they could have abundance. They could embrace their journey, embrace themselves, embrace the patterns and the underlying purpose that is there beneath it all. They could find, you could find your purpose. It has to be there. I found mine . . . You can find yours.

I don’t think that if you can believe in a God that you can believe that you were created to live a life that sucks. Sure, really terrible things can happen. Circumstances can come down on you at times, however, I know that I am not my circumstances. And I wasn’t put on earth to suck at living. Sucking at life is not my purpose. And I am sure it isn’t your purpose either.

There is no way God created you to suck. Maybe it may take a threat on your life to get you to find your purpose, I hope not, however, you do need to find that pattern. You need to recognize that journey. I don’t know if it will take a thirty minute walk in the woods or an evening sitting under the stars or a conversation with a friend or catching up with family BUT I do know that you need to find that journey to find peace and purpose and prosperity.

So, maybe look for those patterns in your day? Find the purpose for your life and embrace that journey. Because I know God didn’t create you to suck.

I hope you find whatever you’re looking for. Have the day you want.

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