Divine Purpose

Divine Purpose

The Unfolding of Purpose

The path toward understanding purpose is to bring awareness to what makes you feel alive and to share that aliveness with others. We are continually unfolding our purpose as we live. From the moment you were born, you were born on purpose. When you bring awareness to this purpose, you can embrace your life in a new way and experience how this purpose has formed your life and continues to form it.

There are fundamental ways to describe purpose, such as “to love,” or “to be,” or “to become.” Yet our personal expression of purpose in the world, through our work and relationships, may require some further soul searching. It is the intention of this book to help give you tools for that search, so that you can live in the unfolding of this purpose with awareness and grace.

I first realized the sheer power purpose only a few years ago, when I was visiting a dear teacher who was dying of cancer. I had been studying and apprenticing with wisdom teacher David La Chapelle for six years, and it was difficult to see him slipping away. Yet at the foot of such loss, the lens through which you see life shifts dramatically. As I sat by a mountain stream in his home town in Colorado, I watched the power of the water wash over the rocks in its course down the mountain. In that moment, I realized the immense power that purpose can have in our lives.

Studying with David and then serving him through his illness created a context for my life that I had not experienced before. In that moment by the stream, I could see that having a context for your life brings guidance to all that you do in the same way that the banks of the river guide a mountain stream. Where rocks and branches may otherwise create several meandering brooks with no direction, when held within banks the river runs powerfully over around these potential blockages. All of the river’s energy is used in carrying out its mission in going down the mountain.

Purpose provides the context for your life, so that all of your choices and aspirations can move in one clear and intentional direction. Purpose also provides momentum, so that when we experience blockages – the rocks and branches of life – we continue on our course despite these obstacles. We open our hearts to experience the flow of grace in our lives.

Contemplation

Write out your intentions in how you will use this book to explore purpose.  Will you journal weekly? Or will you take a few days, weeks or months and work through the contemplations? Create an intentional relationship with the purpose exploration that you are doing. Write down what you would like to get out of working through these pages. Is it knowing what you are here to do? Is it knowing that and applying that to a new project or job? Is it support for a purpose you already know is yours to do? Writing this down is your commitment to yourself to allow yourself to transform through the work and reflection that you do. This kind of commitment will help you deal with resistance if it arises.

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