Not Knowing What To Do With
Your Life
Do you feel lost or clueless about what to do with your life? Need some help figuring it out?
If you are guessing instead of knowing what you are supposed to be doing with your life ... you are not alone. You may be just like this example about a girl who does not know what to do with her life.
But hidden in the background of her life are clues to both ... that her calling is to help terminally ill patients and her purpose is to learn the healing power of love, laughter and forgiveness.
Missing Important Clues
In the forefront of her life, visible to all is the first important clue. When she is growing up, she knows she likes to spend time taking care of her aging grandmother -- but she does not know why. The stories her grandmother tells and the laughter they share over them are special moments ... ann* they create a strong and loving connection between them ... but when her grandmother passes on she does not think much about it and the experience fades into a fond memory.
Drifting Through High School
In high school she drifts between classes, understudies for the lead actress* in the high school comedy, gets an A+ on her biography of Florence Night.in.gale, does her volunteer work as a candy stripper in a retirement home and seems to have more fun with the residents than with the kids at school -- which makes her feel kinda weird.
And lost.
Her career counselor reads the results of her career vocational tests and suggests, based on her uninspired grades and lackluster interest in academics -- to go to the local community college and major in English -- her best subject.
Doing What Her Friends Do
Eventually she gets* married, and to help pay the mounting bills she goes after younger clients who are willing to pay more for the latest styles and give larger tips. After the kids are born, they move to an more upscale neighborhood in a new development so they raise their kids in a secure environment.
She gets a part time job cutting hair to pay for the local community college -- mostly because she wanted to keep her her best friend company. She and her best friend move around a few salons, and she ends* up at a nice salon with a clientele of all older women wanting "wash and sets" and all the old fashioned styles reminiscent of her grandmother and mother.
Her clients become her friends, and as they age she starts making house calls when they are not well enough to come in to the shop. She makes a living wage, has more fun laughing with "the ladies" than taking tests, and eventually drops out of school to get her cosmetics license -- even though they no longer teach the styles she does on a regular basis.
As her clients start to need at-home-care nurses, she meets them and some of them become her best friends. But money is tight because medicare doesn't pay for hair* cuts and she doesn't make enough to take time off to go back to school and get a nursing degree, as her clients and friends suggest.
Making Ends Meet
When she takes her kids to the park near her parent's home, she watches the older men playing checkers and chats with the seniors taking strolls around the community park while the kids play. She eyes the senior class at the Yoga studio and secretly longs to sneak in and take that class instead of the stay-at-home-mom class she is taking with her friends.
Growing Older
And she worries about her parents getting older, and if her kids will find their way in the world or end up settling and be stuck in a less than passionate job like she was. And on her nightstand are books whose characters face growing older and dyeing* with Grace.
As she grows older, she looks back on her life ... wondering if she made the right choices. She loves her kids, but as they pack and go off to college, she feels like all the passion and purpose in her life is moving out of the house too.
The thought crosses her mind ... do her kids want to grow up to be like her? Does she want them to have a life like hers?
This story is all too typical ... but it does not have to happen like this. If she knew how to figure out what she was supposed to be doing with her life .. her life purpose and calling, she would have made different choices .. and followed her passion and purpose.
See the difference here* in her life story ...
Living knowing your calling & purpose
