Why is it so hard to figure out how to accomplish our mission? Some people go through their entire lives just searching. Why is that?
Perfectly expressed. Another way to say it might be that we are continually laboring, throughout our lives, to give birth to something better than what we thought we were. Sometimes it's the pain of the process that awakens you to its value and meaning. It's a matter of making the right choices, moment to moment, and then looking back, decades later, to realize what they led to.
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I appreciated this article, and it resonates with me. I'm wondering if these are the thoughts of the writer, or is it from the Torah, and if yes, what are the sources where these ideas are discussed?
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Sometimes we all want a special mission,when in fact God has already placed us where He wants us.Maybe we don't consider the mundane things of life,such as raising children,etc,as a mission,but they are,with all the frustrations that come with it.For every Samson( I haven't met a single one yet),there have to be millions of ordinary people,yet they are by no means ordinary,not in the heart and mind of God who created all of them; each fulfilling a purpose,either it is the paramedic who came to your rescue after an accident,the doctor or nurse treating you,etc..In fact,forget about Samson,what would we be the " ordinary people" I have just mentioned?For the rest,it is true that many life missions are aborted. Some souls encounter too much opposition,and give up!Others press on ,but there is only so much a person can take.Moses probably didn't see it that way,since he fulfilled his life's mission,in the midst of great opposition,all followed by 40 years in the wilderness!
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Whenever any kind of opportunity knocks my door, I never let it go. Yet in most of those i failed and lost myself in completely darkness of desperation. But still I get some few success in among them and at that time I realize and belief that this is what God gave me, this is what God had for me, this is what God wanted me to do. So all I do in simple is walk on the God's path created for me and let Him to decide where I should go and where I should stop. My work is to walk, His work is to show me the rigtheous path.
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is it's a JOURNEY we're all taking, and there are many forks in the road we might take, and for each fork there are more branchings, as in a mirroring of the Tree itself, the Tree known as the Tree of Life. Perhaps relevant to talk about this right now, given Tu B'Shevat.
In looking down over the years we see we were none of us ever thread bare, and the journey starts to take on more and more sense in looking down the years, at all those who mentored us, at all those moments of inspiration, of love, of reverence. It's a climb, and a climb is so often arduous, but when we reach that peak, those peak experiences, it seems it was all worth it, and having it too easy, does detract totally from the accomplishment of taking that climb.
You can also view this as the acent to G_d in performing, as you climb, also aspects of your "mission" even when you are in doubt, in deep anguish and questing. It's about the Search. Without the Search we'd never make it to Delicious.
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