Every single one of us has asked, or will ask, or are currently asking: why am I here? what is my purpose?
There are too many answers to write into one book. To put them all down on paper would require more paper than this world will ever generate, because there are multiple answers for every single person. There are simple answers like: because you are. There are intricate, impossibly complex answers that I couldn't even begin to understand, or translate. Sometimes the answers change as we grow and age. I'm not a philospher, so I cannot even begin to fathom the complexities of answering those questions.
I believe my purpose in this life is to help others, just as most every other person on the planet. Helping others gives my life purpose, but I don't know if that is my life's purpose. My joy, my peace and my satisfaction come from helping others in whatever ways I am able. Sometimes it may be as simple as just listening to someone as they cry. Or just letting them lay their head on my shoulder and rest. There are times they need more active assistance, but no matter what their need is, I always try, and hope, to be able to fill their need and send them away from me better off than when they came. I don't always succeed, sometimes because I have nothing I can give or do, but I do always try.
But there are times when I'm trying to reach a much broader field of people. Not the ones who are physically nearby, and maybe some I have never, and will never, actually meet. The messages I post on social media have the capacity to reach tens of millions of people, and I always strive to give messages of hope, of healing, of love. I've hurt so many times when the words of someone I've never known existed have reached into my heart and comforted me, soothed my pain and given me the hope to get up and carry on. I try to do the same when I post messages on social media. Even if someone on the other side of the planet reads them, I want them to find solace, peace, enlightenment, hope in my words. Encouraging people costs me nothing, but they have everything to gain from my words if I choose them carefully and follow the lead of Holy Spirit. He is my Comforter, and I want to share His comfort with the entire universe.
From the first day of creation until now, there have probably been more than 10 Trillion people who have walked this planet, yet God had a purpose for every single one of them. He created each and every one of us with a unique and distinctive purpose. We may not always know every aspect of His purpose for us, but if we follow in His Word and Will, we will always fulfill the purpose He designed us for. Some may know, others may not, but just following His lead will always bring us into completion of His plan and purpose. What better result could we possibly hope for?
