Purpose

As you probably know by now, I am participating in a writing challenge, and the topics are being assigned by someone else.  Today's assignment hit me right where I live.  It is:

That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton? . . . Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Identify one of your biggest challenges at the moment (ie I don’t feel passionate about my work) and turn it into a question (ie How can I do work I’m passionate about?) Write it on a post-it and put it up on your bathroom mirror or the back of your front door. After 48-hours, journal what answers came up for you and be sure to evaluate them.
Bonus: tweet or blog a photo of your post-it.
(Author: Jenny Blake)

This very thing has actually consumed me for weeks...how can I do what I do better?  Am I doing exactly what God designed me to do, and am I doing it as well as I can?  I believe this is a question we must all ask ourselves.  The tricky part, I think, is that the first part of that question may have more than one answer depending on where you are in life.

Like most of you, I am facing a challenge, right here, right now, in my life.  I will do this challenge and put a post it on my bathroom mirror, and we'll see what comes up in my journal on Monday morning.

What is your current challenge?  Is it work related?  Relationship?  Financial?  I urge you to take Emerson's words to heart and seek to discover what God has created you to do and be.  Once you figure that our, like Emerson, I believe there is no limit.

TAY