| When we first begin to feel the stirrings of | | | | expect. This may also come in order to move |
| God's love in our hearts, we begin to awaken | | | | a person forward quickly upon their spiritual |
| spiritually. Suddenly, instead of being just | | | | path, in response to the divine timing for |
| a mother or father, or a son or daughter, a | | | | that soul. |
| student, a teacher, an artist, a professional | | | | |
| or a sports enthusiast, we discover that we | | | | For others, and for most of us, the answer to |
| are so much more. We are souls, each of us a | | | | this question of God's purpose for us, is |
| magnificent and multifaceted jewel of | | | | answered in more incremental ways. It is |
| radiance, of complexity, of uniqueness and of | | | | like walking a treasure map, receiving first |
| love. We are created in God's image, with | | | | one clue and then another, with the |
| infinite possibility and infinite potential. | | | | understanding building over time. Going |
| | | | through life in this way, asking and praying |
| One of the first things we ask ourselves as | | | | and waiting to receive the answer, builds |
| we begin to awaken to our spiritual | | | | faith, courage and strength and opens within |
| potential, is why am I here? What is God's | | | | us a passageway of divine light that |
| purpose for me? This is a beautiful and | | | | communicates with the spiritual realms in a |
| wonderful question to ask, for it opens the | | | | continual way. This process also purifies us |
| pathway for us to return Home to the depth of | | | | and releases us from older ways of relating |
| our divine connection with spirit. The | | | | to life, so we can begin to see and feel and |
| longing in our heart to know what God's | | | | be in a whole new way. |
| purpose is for us, begins to activate a new | | | | |
| direction in our lives. | | | | There is no special technique or spiritual |
| | | | practice needed in order to discover what |
| Previously, we were seeking to fulfill our | | | | God's purpose is for our lives. The simple |
| own needs, and those of our closest friends | | | | desire and longing to live a life that is One |
| and family. We were looking for a way to | | | | with God's love is enough to begin the |
| express ourselves and live a good life. When | | | | process of spiritual discovery. If you feel |
| spiritual longing grows stronger in our | | | | a strong connection to a particular form of |
| hearts, the earlier ways of fulfilling | | | | spiritual or religious practice, follow this |
| ourselves seem to lose interest, and are no | | | | path and immerse yourself in the longing and |
| longer satisfied. We begin to look for | | | | in the desire for discovery. Life will begin |
| something more, something more real, true, | | | | to reveal to you the answers to the questions |
| something deeper and more meaningful. | | | | you seek. |
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| Imagine that you have been living in a black | | | | Open yourself to the longing in your heart, |
| and white world, but didn't know that | | | | pray deeply to know God's purpose for your |
| anything more was possible. Then suddenly, | | | | life, and you will begin to see and feel and |
| you begin to see color! This is such a | | | | experience new revelations in your own |
| strikingly different experience, so much more | | | | understanding of who you are. As you move |
| alive and filled with light and life, that we | | | | into a more conscious alignment with God's |
| don't want to return to the old black and | | | | purpose for your life, greater light will |
| white existence. So it is with spiritual | | | | begin to fill your body, mind and |
| life, that we move from the less real to the | | | | consciousness. This light brings healing |
| more real. We long for greater love and | | | | both to yourself, and to all others that you |
| truth. We become more ourselves, and we also | | | | may encounter. It even blesses the very |
| let go of old ways of expressing ourselves | | | | Earth that you stand upon, and gives a unique |
| that no longer feel right to us. | | | | and special gift to God and to all of life. |
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| So how do we discover what is God's purpose | | | | The harmony of fulfilling your divine purpose |
| for us? For some, the answer to this | | | | brings peace joy, gratitude and blessing to |
| question arrives like a lightning bolt of | | | | all those that you touch. This is God's |
| truth and clarity from the heavens. This | | | | great gift to us and to all of life, that we |
| kind of blessing, that of direct revelation, | | | | may be blessed and bless others in return, |
| is sometimes needed in order to communicate | | | | spreading love and light to each other and to |
| to the soul something important that may be | | | | all of the world. |
| very different from what they would otherwise | | | | |