Purpose

I have been working a lot the last two days. Two 12 hour graveyard shifts...don't leave a ton of time for other things. Additinally it seems like you are perpetually tired when you wake up. Not that this is any new thing for me. All through the last three years of college I worked at least 24 hours a week in addition to heavy school schedule, hours of cancer research and a part time job in running. Let not even mention church callings. It's a wonderful life.
As I was working yesterday I saw more fully how there is a plan for each of us. Not everything has gone perfectly, I haven't gotten into medical school quickly, grades never accurately depict capability, and I have not always made the best choices. However I find that there is a feeling I can't deny that there is someone who knows all this and has prepared for it. Someone who knows the mistakes and fallies I may make, and has a way to make them all work for my good.
I truly believe that everything has a reason. Perhaps I will see the purpose for this extra year later. I would like to think it would be for a girl but who knows now. Martin Harris lost the pages from the first bit of the translation. It was a catastrophy, devastating. That great work was lost forever. Yet there was prepared a way for the same instruction to be given, later in the book. The Lord knew that human weakness would provide for the loss and he made the difference.
If we can look at our own life with that same faith and perspective we will better understand our direction. Happiness after all comes from being at peace with your purpose and direction. Once we see how our direction is bringing us to our purpose, peace comes. It is not through tv or music or money but through understanding this and seeing His hand in our life that we can gain this perspective. I can see mine when I stop to truly reflect, can you?