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Post by caressa on Oct 24, 2004 1:05:52 GMT -5
QUESTION FOR TODAY
Do you know what your primary purpose in life is, if so what is it?
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Post by Lin on Oct 24, 2004 4:03:30 GMT -5
I honestly think it is to teach children. That's why i dont retire. 35 years and still at it.
LIN
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Post by caressa on Oct 24, 2004 10:10:31 GMT -5
Mine is to carry the message of recovery. To live my life to the fullest and be the best me that I can be today. At three years sober I question my existence. I questioned why I was sober especially when so many seem more needy and have more to live for than I did. Here I was at 52 and their were so many young people out there dying.
I went back to basics, went to a meeting every day for two weeks and I kept hearing the same message, "give back what was given to you." I was one of the very sick ones when I got here, I hope I never lose my gratitude.
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Post by Tiger on Oct 24, 2004 12:05:46 GMT -5
{quote} Do you know what your primary purpose in life is, if so what is it? {/quote}
Mine is to make the program....die sober!
Tiger
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Post by caressa on Nov 1, 2004 0:28:53 GMT -5
Today, the message is "To Live!" Live and let live! They say, "Attraction rather than promotion!" If I live my life, walk my talk, then hopefully others will choose recovery too. |
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Post by lildee on Nov 1, 2004 1:56:27 GMT -5
I read this question a few days ago and gave it sometime to ponder and mull over and search for the answer. Then it came like a lightening bolt.
Aside from all the roles I have as mother, wife, nurse, homemaker, chief cook and bottle washer, a shoulder for crying eyes, a warm cuddle, and on and on ad nauseum. I feel that my primary purpose in life is to be God's messenger. To let God talk through me. To act as if a guardian angel. To let my sixth sense grow. I don't say this to be corny but I have had several encounters where it definetely was God's finger guiding me, leading me to the truth.
One prime example was when I was little, maybe 7 years old. I was sitting in the kitchen on the step ladder and all of a sudden I said that my grandma died. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up. I was all sweaty. There was no reason for this. I knew she was well taken care of and we had just recently seen her, and everything was fine. Not more than 10 minutes passed and the phone rang. It was my aunt saying that my grandma had died. That sixth sense in action?
Another example. My hubby had a cold and he was Mr. Macho and didn't want to go to the doctor. So he took all of this over the counter cold medicine. At the same time I was studying nursing and the GI sytem. To make a long story short. He wound up with a GI Bleed. (Similar to a bleeding ulcer). I saw the signs and rushed him to the hospital. He got 6 units of blood over the course of the next few days. (That is half the blood in the human body). Coincidence or the finger of God?
It doesn't happen all the time but there is an uncanny ability to be able to forsee certain things. I just think of it as a gift. It's kind of like when you think about someone that you haven't seen or talked to for years and all of a sudden their name pops into you head. For me it goes just a little further. It's not like I can predict anything or control when it happens it just does.
More recently, I have thoughts about one of my hubby's sponsors. I had a feeling that he was very sad and hurting. Out of the blue I called him to see if he was OK. Sure enough we talked and he told me how terrible he felt. He had been having some trouble with his spine and they gave him some medicine (which he found out that he was allergic to.) Not the intense allergic reaction that you think of, but a slow draining kind of allergy. He called his doctor and told him what was going on and stopped the medicine right away. Now he is back to his old chipper self . Now here is a man that I know very little about and it was those same feelings. Coincidence or God?
Maybe it's open-mindedness, maybe it's ESP, maybe I sense an angel or it could just be God showing me the way. I am going with God.
love ya and God Bless
Arlene
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Post by caressa on Nov 1, 2004 4:54:55 GMT -5
Thank you my friend. I believe a lot of have the ability to tap into our intuitive side, and it is something that can be nurtured and developed or hid in a closet and ignored.
I too believe it is a gift. As a friend use to say, "That's not odd, that's God." I think we all have our own gift and it takes many forms. It is not something to fear but to give thanks and a tool to show our gratitude to God for the many gifts he has bestowed on us.
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Post by majestyjo on Dec 16, 2016 15:28:13 GMT -5
It is hard to believe that I wrote this 12 years ago. I looked at the age and realized it was a typing error and my age should read 62. Even so, my purpose is the same, to carry the message of recovery. That is why I still post here at EoR, it has been my online home group for years. I am so grateful for this site.  |
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Post by caressa222 on Jan 14, 2021 7:36:22 GMT -5
Still trying to carry the message of recovery. My God put some great teachers in my path.  |
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.
Jun 20, 2021 7:32:46 GMT -5
. I will be back looking for Lin and others.
Jun 20, 2021 7:32:46 GMT -5