To continue...

What exactly then is a life of purpose? That is a great question. Difficult to answer!
I suppose a life of purpose is different for everybody. Sadly for some in this world a life of purpose consists of scraping enough scraps from life just to survive and then for others perhaps it consists of wearing the right clothes (whatever that means!).
I was watching a movie with my daughter recently, it was called 'The Devil wears Prada'. It was a funny movie in a way but in another it grieved me to observe a world that considers billions of dollars spent on 'fashion' acceptable while millions go hungry. We live on a crazy mixed up planet don't you think?
Here in my country (Australia) we love our fireworks displays. New Years Eve, Australia Day, sporting events, you name it we punctuate these events by spending, no scrub that...we burn millions of dollars with fireworks. Every News Years Eve we have to out-do the previous year with the magnitude and splendour of our display and in the process we burn another X million dollars.
Man do we like to indulge ourselves in this world!
I'm sorry people but it is ludicrous. The absurdity of it is almost too great for me to bear.
Sadly I have never been able to make a lot of money; I have achieved little career wise...my older brother recently reminded me that I have achieved nothing...he likes to do that!
Back to a life of purpose...for me a life of purpose is one that makes a difference in someone else's life. Ideally that difference should be one that brings some level of improvement.
I'm a Christian, I'm proud to be a Christian but I am not religious! That probably doesn't make a lot of sense to many because 'church' throughout this world has done a lot down through the centuries to take Christianity and make it religious.
Well my belief is that Jesus Christ now wants to take back the 'christianity' He created and have it the way He envisaged it.
Jesus was an historical fact. I know that not all will agree with me but I believe His purpose was to recover me (and you) and draw me back from a life of no purpose into a life of purpose.
His message was about 'love your neighbour'. He even clearly defined who our neighbour was but maybe we'll save that for the next instalment.
So I don't want to give this world 'religion' but I want to be a vessel that makes a difference in this world.
That is a life of purpose for me!

In the beginning...

Blogs!? What are they?
The point is my sister has one and she is older than me so I guess that means I should have one too.
I read hers today and I was astounded at the unbelievable window it gave me into her life.
So this is my blog...this hopefully will be a window into my life...a life of purpose.
So over the next day or so I will gather together my thoughts and will begin...at the beginning.