Live your life on purpose.

Mystery.

Life is filled with mystery.

Or perhaps I should say, my life is "mystery filled". There is so much that goes on around and within me that I do not even pretend to understand it all.

On any given day, I see people do things and I ask myself, "Now why in the world are they doing that?"

As I watch my four year old dump Elmer's glue into her sister's ballet bag I wonder, "What in the world is this child thinking to do something like that?" As I read the paper, I wonder "How can people do those awful things to one another?"

Sometimes, I find that the wondering is more personal in nature. For example, why do I always feel as if I am on the outside looking in? Why do I never feel a "part" of things?

Even thought I am a Christ follower, I don't feel as if I am a "part" of the body of Christ. Although I participate and contribute in a variety of team settings, I never feel as if I am a "part" of the team.

Sometimes I wonder if I will I ever feel as if I belong....

I think most of us struggle with these kinds of questions at some point or other. Or at least I like to think we all do.

Mystery.

In the end, we are each left with the mystery filled life.

I don't want to waste too much time trying to figure out the incomprehesible. It's a fruitless endeavor. We can't know what is unknowable.

So, in the end, I choose to embrace the mystery. I live my life on purpose and let the mystery be what it is.

How about you? Do you live your life on purpose?