Just like in OD I end up lagging between entries. There was a time in OD when I couldn't wait until the time of day when I would write an entry. Once I got my first iPhone, though, I ended up not really going on the computer much except at work and I got a diary app. OD never did do an app and that was that.
I put Prosebox on my "front page" of my iPhone but, like OD, I'm not so good about opening it. I was for the first few novelty days, but then I didn't. Still, I construct entries in my head and then don't make them... not even in the iPhone app... so, that's the way it goes.
Most of the entries I construct are complaints anyway, but some are just ponderings... interesting to me but, then again, my own mind is often interesting to me. When I step out of myself, I realize that maybe I'm not quite as fascinating as I find myself. ;-)
I was thinking today about God's plan for our lives. I was wondering what my purpose was here on earth... what each of our purposes was. I was thinking that it didn't seem plausible that each of us had just one moment, one shining purpose that we were put here for... like to pull that one child out of the way of the bus so that he could grow up and find the cure for cancer. Or do do that one big thing, to donate that one big sum, to birth that one child who will birth that one child who will birth that one child and so on until the one is birthed who will bring about world peace.
Instead, maybe we're put here for a dozen little purposes every single day... to be the one patient person that a miserable person encounters today. To be the one smile that another gets out on the street when they're feeling sad. To be the one kind face, the one funny joke, the one helping hand, the one dollar... whatever it is... maybe we're here for the one little thing we do millions of times over throughout our lives and the moments that we don't do them, well... we're given multiple chances to try again when we meet that next person. We also have a purpose of offering ourselves to be the one who is the subject of another's purpose when WE are down. Will God's child fulfill their purpose when they are supposed to lift US up with a kind word or smile? We'll keep on going even if they don't, who better to put before them as a "test" then those who can keep going even when others fail the test? God wouldn't want to send the un-tested out among those who REALLY needed people who knew how to be kind even in the worst of times.
I don't know... maybe those small purposes every day, when combined, are in some ways even more important than those BIG purposes that seem so noble to us... the ones that win international prizes and put people's names in the history books. There is so much we can each do to bolster each other. I guess we could each deserve a prize in the end.
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