PURPOSE MAY NOT BE FLASHY
I have a pal named Hoyle Picklesimer I love to josh with. One day at lunch I asked, "Hoyle, have you ever wondered what you are here for?"
He asked, "What do you mean?"
I said, "What you were put here to do. What your purpose is?"
He replied, "No, I never have."
I said, "I find it hard to believe that! But I'll tell you why you were put here."
"OK. Why was I put here?"
"Hoyle, it was revealed to me that you were put here so I would have someone to play with."
He thought a few moments and replied, "Well, I'll say one thing. I have fulfilled my calling."
As funny as this conversation was to me, I think it is entirely possible that our purposes can be simple and non-flashy. Helen Keller's teacher spent her life teaching one little blind, deaf girl. Maybe she was thinking she would teach thousands and get little thank you notes from one of students when he became president, or won the marathon, or some such flashy venture.
It is possible your purpose is exactly what you are doing. Maybe the flashiness is in the intensity of our commitment. Maybe it is in the soul arena, where we know we have given it our all.
I feel as good about feeding birds all my life as I do about being in an elected office for 16 years. I know I saved one one-legged Cardinal from certain death and we had a beautiful friendship for five years.
There is no need for us to attach degrees of importance to what we do. To do that is actually an ego thing. God created a world where we have all kinds of tasks, seemingly big and small, but if God created the world this way, who is to say any work is "small"?
God looked at it and said, "It is good." Let us say it all is good.
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