Posts tagged "Purpose"
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    Nov

    "Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose."

    - Mary Anne Radmacher (via creatingaquietmind)

    (Source: middlenameconfused, via creatingaquietmind)

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    Apr
    Truth. I just hope everyone who comes across this post remembers that, whether they believe in God or not. We’re not just living. We matter to Someone.

    Truth. I just hope everyone who comes across this post remembers that, whether they believe in God or not. We’re not just living. We matter to Someone.

    (Source: bearhugsforjesus, via transf0rmed)

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    Dec
    Interesting that I’ve been seeing posts like this one recently which seem to be targeting me…Interesting because I’m mad right now, not including the hurt and disappointment about my plans not working out without any foreseeable and sensible reason. Mind you this is the first time in a long time that this has happened, so I guess you could call me spoiled my Heavenly Father. But the fact is that I don’t hate Him nor am I angry at Him, because the determination with which He shut down each of my plans/ideas shows me that He knew something more than I did (as usual), and this was definitely His way of proving to me He cares. I guess my point is that He doesn’t always need to explain to me why He does what He does, but I should always remember that He has the best intentions for me and the ones I love. I’m justified in being sad or disappointed, showing emotion, because this is after all what makes me human. Even Job showed emotions (not that I’m comparing myself to him in terms of the intensity of my troubles). But I refuse to turn against The One Who’s brought me so far, with all that I need and more than I deserve, and curse at Him or blame Him for what sin has caused. I’ll just let Him pick me up, comfort me, and then we’ll keep moving forward together. After all, that’s the joy of life: appreciating Good because of the bad.

    Interesting that I’ve been seeing posts like this one recently which seem to be targeting me…Interesting because I’m mad right now, not including the hurt and disappointment about my plans not working out without any foreseeable and sensible reason. Mind you this is the first time in a long time that this has happened, so I guess you could call me spoiled my Heavenly Father.

    But the fact is that I don’t hate Him nor am I angry at Him, because the determination with which He shut down each of my plans/ideas shows me that He knew something more than I did (as usual), and this was definitely His way of proving to me He cares.

    I guess my point is that He doesn’t always need to explain to me why He does what He does, but I should always remember that He has the best intentions for me and the ones I love. I’m justified in being sad or disappointed, showing emotion, because this is after all what makes me human. Even Job showed emotions (not that I’m comparing myself to him in terms of the intensity of my troubles).

    But I refuse to turn against The One Who’s brought me so far, with all that I need and more than I deserve, and curse at Him or blame Him for what sin has caused. I’ll just let Him pick me up, comfort me, and then we’ll keep moving forward together.

    After all, that’s the joy of life: appreciating Good because of the bad.

    (Source: spiritualinspiration, via band-aids-and-bruises-deactivat)

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    12
    Sep

    "You are not the momentary whim of a careless creator experimenting in the laboratory of life… You were made with a purpose."

    -

    Og Mandino “The Greatest Miracle in the World”

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    12
    Sep

    The art of living is…

    It’s been too long since I’ve found another step in the art of living. Maybe that’s why I came to Italy, hoping that I’d find a way to live life again to the fullest, without feeling dull and blah, or stressed out and useless. So I went downtown several times in Florence, looking for a way to fill my cup to the brim again, but I didn’t find anything: no inspiration, no reason for enjoying life (especially once I left the area around Il Duomo), and no “new” me. Until today. Where did I find myself and my inspiration for living? In a dorm room, just hanging out with some girlfriends and chatting about who we are and who we want to be. I realized that we were all here for the same reason: we were tired of living in a mold and rushing through life so fast that we run right past our purpose for being here on Earth. So we all came to find ourselves, or, some to reinforce themselves. Either way, it opened my eyes to the fact that we, as humans, are all striving for one thing: to have a purpose. In talking to my girls, I ended up advising myself, and thus found another piece of the canvas in the art of living:

    Don’t live for the approval of others. Love yourself, love God, and forgive yourself.

    I would go on a whole discourse, but actually, I think I’ll just leave it at that and everyone take away what they get from it (even if only one person reads this).

    Ciao tutti!

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According to Webster, Living is to be "active, functioning, full of vigor." Being active requires a lot of dedication and concentration, as is the same to be an artist. From these common factors, I have concluded that true Living is an Art. I like to consider myself an artist, so I don't just want to record survival, I want to express life. And now to discover how to artfully live.
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