Friday Focus: 3 Questions

I heard an incredible interview with Murray Sinclair, a First Nations leader and residential “school” survivor.

He was giving his opinion on what is needed in order for survivors to heal and find the truth and reconciliation within themselves first.

He said there are 3 questions everyone must ask themselves in order to move on into healing: 1. Where do you come from? 2. Where are you going? 3. What is your purpose?

If you take the time to really search for the answers and live intentionally the positive wake of your life will ripple into unborn generations.

I’ve pondered these questions most of my life. I moved 3 times in my life at very crucial intersections of childhood, pre-teen and teenager. The constant disruption broke a few things in my soul. One of them was a sense of identity.

So where do I come from?

I’ve done the DNA. I’ve searched for hours on Ancestry. I’ve connected with long lost cousins and traveled back to the places of my childhood and teen years. I’ve even stood on foreign soil and felt a tug of belonging. However, there’s only one solid way I can answer the first question:

I come from God.

I come from His heart, His mind, His blueprint. I’m fashioned by His hands. He intentionally formed and composed me in all aspects of my physical, emotional, mental and spiritual personality. I am His.

I come from God.

Having landed on that rock solid truth the second question is obvious:

Where am I going?

I’m going back to God.

With this truth now in my heart, mind, soul and spirit, life becomes uncluttered. Things are put into perspective. So much just doesn’t matter.

Let’s be honest: I’m am still working this out on a minute by minute basis!

But by meditating on this I am motivated to unclutter my life: physically, emotionally, spiritually.

I’ve already been doing this for a few years but now I know WHY and I have a renewed passion to see it through. I do not want to leave my children or grandchildren clutter, junk, stuff, etc to deal with when I leave. Because:

I am going back to God.

If the first question is A and the last question is Z the third question is all the other letters in the middle.

What is your purpose?

Again, I’ve been working on this most of my life. Unfortunately I’ve spent many years trying to find acceptance, validation, and my purpose from others. That has been counter productive but also illuminating.

As scientists around the world know finding the wrong answer can actually accelerate the discovery of the right one.

I know my purpose is to SHINE as a Creative, Spiritual, Visionary, TrailBlazer guiding others through cycles of Death to Resurrection.

No matter what I do: write, lead, coach, pray, be with others, this is my purpose!

No matter where you are on your journey of self-discovery, I pray you keep going to the day of your departure.

PLEASE do not buy into the idea that self-discovery is a sin or selfish or narcissistic! It is a painfully important part of proper spiritual, emotional, mental and physical maturity.

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