lazy_kayakerI suppose if my brother and friend (and time) had their way, the words of the psalmist would constitute my epitaph! I get intrigued whenever I hear someone defining their life purpose – the essence of their existence – what they are really about. Sometimes I think it’s presumptuous (almost bordering on preposterous!) for someone to actually even imagine they hold sway to the goings-on in their life, much less try and explain their existence and project their future. Yet it’s also a bold declaration or rather an attempt at somehow putting method in the madness of life.

I think it was Blaise Pascal (the French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist) who said that there is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by GOD, the creator, made known though Jesus. How apt that is! The Westminster shorter Catechism sums it well by saying Man’s chief end is to glorify GOD, and to enjoy him forever. My take is that if we could muster the audacity of laying aside our best hopes, dreams and longings and somehow align our plans and ambitions with God’s master design, that would be a better take considering really that our best efforts would amount to very little, if anything, to what we can potentially achieve with providence.