You and your family have a mission in life. It is unlike the mission of any other person (or family) in the world. Someway, God has a design for you different from that of any other who has ever lived on this planet.

There have been perhaps as many as eighty billion people in all of history and yet you have a mission that’s as unique to you as your fingerprints.

It’s critical to know this because when we die, we’ll see what that mission was — and more importantly, whether we fulfilled it (or perhaps we should say missions, plural). It’s something we definitely want to do. We want to complete them. We can glimpse them – and get a sense of them – through prayer. A glimpse. In deep contemplation, we can ask the Holy Spirit to direct us as to carrying forth what the Lord has assigned to us, and we should, for every single one of us is equally important to God’s Plan for Creation and everything we do is recorded and every minute on earth is precious (it never returns).

The Lord knew you before you were born (Jeremiah 1:5 ) and before you were born He placed you in a huge puzzle that only He can see in its fullness.

The only human Who has ever been privy to the “big picture” was Jesus and we see that He completed His mission (“It is finished,” He said — John 9:30) when He was crucified.

What is your life mission? Have you ever contemplated it? More importantly, have you prayed to accomplish it? If you have, how does it relate to your family? How might it relate to ancestors — and descendants (those who will come after you)?

Have you ever asked the Holy Spirit to guide you in completing His plan?

These are very important issues. A mission is linked to who we are, what we do, the opportunities we have had, those people we meet, the successes we have enjoyed, the failures we have endured, and those to whom we are closest. Often, we guess what our missions are, or try to fashion them according to what we expect or want. Some “missions” seem obvious: A doctor may see his cause as healing the sick, and indeed that is likely a key part of it. A mother takes care of her children. That’s obvious. A carpenter may see his mission as feeding his family, as well as building homes – and both are involved in it. A gardener takes care of trees.

But we must ask ourselves: is what we do a mission? Is there more we should be doing, or focusing upon?

And the answer will come only through prayer – in the spirit.

–MHB

[adapted from Life Missions, Family Healings]