saturday inspiration

i'm not exactly sure how i feel about the
idea that we all have a purpose to serve.
or we all have something we are sposed to
bring to the world.

i think i shy away from that because it sounds
kinda rule oriented and like we have to or
something like that.

but the idea of 'offering' caught my heart
awhile back. offering something to the world.
it sounds more like it's an option. i like the
wording better. to me, it's beautiful.

and i've spent time trying to figure out what
i could offer. frustrated myself silly tryin'
to figure that out. and yes, ended up writing
a bone sigh about it!!!

flippin thru this book this morning (dawna markova's
book 'i will not die an unlived life') she touches
on it with some fantastic quotes.

'aristotle said that one's purpose is merely a matter
of knowing where one's talents and the needs of the
world intersect. the ancients recognized that cultivating,
developing and setting free one's gifts was the essential
labor of one's life.'

"we don't have to find our purpose, it is a current in our
souls the way blood courses thru our veins; that all we have
to do is let it find us.'

and finally....

'....the purpose of life is to learn to love, to discover
just how much of god's love each of us can allow to flow
thru with no interference on our part.'

inspiration for my saturday........
off to open up to it all today......