Wel done @humanearl sir..
I read chapter four of 'The Purpose Driven Life' which is entitled Made To Last Forever... the point to ponder at the end of the short chapter was a simple concept... "There is more to life than just here and now." Which I truly believe, otherwise what is the point of us being here? As Rick Warren states in the book, if there was nothing more then here and now, we would just live it up and not care about what we do or say, there would be no repercussions. Although we don't all have the same beliefs, I think we all hope that there is more to life than just this.

I can remember a time when I was seven or eight years old and my sisters and I were driving in the car with our dad and our ex step mother Ruth. We were having a deep conversation about how the world and we came to be... Pretty deep for three little girls under the age of seven or eight... it was after this conversation that I decided that there was more than I would ever understand on this Earth about how we all came to reside here. Because as I thought about the Earth and the universe around us, I started thinking what is outside of the universe? What was outside of that? ...It suddenly dawned on me that we are not meant to know all the answers here but I knew at the age of seven or eight that there was a deeper meaning.

Unfortunately knowing this does not always make it easy, especially when I am handling tragedies, sadness or disappointments... Our Earthly life takes over, things that don't really matter seem to take front and center in our lives, events that don't really matter in the long run. Since we are human beings we forget the goal of living for an eternity and let our minds concentrate on events that are mundane and not important.

This chapter resonated with me as I have been agitated and on edge lately, when I think about why... I start pondering if the reason is something I really need to concern myself with? I have been on this quest to know why? I want answers, I want to understand... What if I had the answers, would that change anything? Or do I just need to know that sometimes the answers don't come in this life, they will be clear in the eternities and there we will understand.

By the way, in no way do I think that is easy to do... if I did, wow... my life would be simple. However; life is not simple, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and since we are human, we tend to forget that the life we are living is not all that there is... There is more to life than just here and now....

Thanks my dear friend...