What is your purpose in this life?

[Maximilian75]

My 8th grade teacher, one of the best teachers I have ever had, used it to catechise us for Confirmation.

 

[Mr_Freeze]

Good for him or her…!
Yes. Learn the answers and then you can unpack them for the rest of your life. Not a bad way to learn in my opinion.

 

[Eric_Hyom]

I recognize that some people can become spiritual gluttons and that such spirituality is to be avoided. But there is a spirituality that brings about inner peace and calm, along with wisdom, knowledge, and understanding.

I have experienced a profound sense of peace, this has happened at times when I should have felt worry, anxiety and fear. I have been a Street Pastor for about ten years, we go out on our streets from around 11pm until about 4 am on a Friday night. We are there because we care about our town and we try and help people when we can.
Much of what we do may seem fairly trivial, exchanging pleasantries with passers by, giving flip flops to girls who can no longer walk in their high heels. Giving water to drunks, sometimes we walk them home, we give out sweets to both the young and old.

We often come into contact with drunken anger and fights. I can remember the first time, there was about a dozen people fifty yards down the road; and they just started punching each other. We prayed as we approached them, I saw one man punched to the ground, another was being kicked on the floor, and a man swung round and punched a women in the face.
We walked in the middle of all this anger, people were in front of me and behind, there was so much I should have worried about. Yet I experienced a profound sense of peace that was truly beyond my understanding whilst in the middle of all the anger. I can only say that after a while things calmed down. We stopped with them for about twenty minutes and when it was time to go, we had lots of handshakes and hugs. I was in my sixties at the time, and I was with two ladies in their seventies.

Philippians 4 seems to sum up this peace…
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

 

[STT]

What do you hope to accomplish? I would like to save souls by spreading spiritual wisdom, but people tend to think that my spiritual wisdom in utter nonsense, even among many Catholics.

Why seek the natural when you can have the supernatural? In other words, why seek natural worldly pleasures when you can experience the much higher-ordered value contained in the supernatural pleasures made possible by the Holy Spirit? Do you think this is wisdom or folly?

Pleasure? You will get use to it after a long time no matter how tense it is so you will be left with nothing unless you find meaning.

 

[masuwerte1]

What is my purpose in life? Contemplation of the prime mover. Either that or to know, love and serve God. I haven’t quite got it figured out yet.