Sharing light and love with the people I cross paths with.
Growing up in a nurturing extended family, I believed from a young age that there's good in everyone. As I grew older, I realized it wasn't always easy to find the good in some, and I had to dig deep! I still looked at the world with rose-tinted glasses. Bringing out the best in the people I cross paths with just came naturally.
I firmly believe our thoughts are like a magnet, and play a massive role in our lives. Expect the best, and that is what you get, nine times out of ten!
Giving birth to two beautiful sons, nurturing them till they were old enough to stand tall in a harsh world. Easing hubby's lifelong struggle with Diabetes, and caring for my Mother in the end. I believe these were vital parts of my purpose here on earth.
I have tried to share love, light, and laughter with people throughout the different seasons of my life. Laughter especially - the best medicine they say, and it's so very true!
I've been a shoulder to cry on, and been given one to cry on as well. Sometimes by someone who hides a heart of gold beneath a hard shell!
Why focus on all the doom and gloom?
Do good things make the headlines? I cannot remember seeing any for a very long time!
So why do people give power to grim headlines by letting them become the talk of the day? Yet, that is what a jaded world does every single day. Sensationalism seems to be the norm.
No, I don't live in a bubble. I stay informed but refuse to let something beyond my control affect my peace of mind and that of the people around me.
Does reinforcing all that is wrong with the world bring about any change whatsoever?
Being a light in a dark world more or less sums up how I see my purpose in life!
P.S. I'm still playing catch-up - this has been my response to @ericvancewalton's Memoir Monday #47 - If you had to summarize your purpose in life in one sentence, what would it be and why?
I'm sharing an extract of a beautiful composition written by my son in his last year of school at the age of seventeen, entitled 'When God Created Me'
God didn't create me so that I can be perfect, no human has that privilege. I'm glad that He didn't make me perfect, because then life would be rather boring. I am also glad that He created us all differently, with our different looks and personalities.
If He made us all the same, this would most probably result in a most boring existence for all of us.
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All things considered, I am very grateful to Him for giving me life and I will repay Him by living my life according to His laws and wills.
Deep thoughts written by such a young man, someone who today is perceptive to the needs of others, super considerate to one and all, and quietly helps wherever he can!
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