{"id":160,"date":"2011-01-27T06:54:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T06:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lettinggo\/2011\/01\/fulfilling-the-purpose-of-life.html"},"modified":"2011-01-27T06:54:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T06:54:03","slug":"fulfilling-the-purpose-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2011\/01\/fulfilling-the-purpose-of-life.html","title":{"rendered":"Fulfilling the Purpose of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>QUESTION<\/b><\/p>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div>I feel that the key to my elusive happiness is in finally figuring out what the purpose of life is&#8230; I keep looking at what the world offers, but find nothing really lasting!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<b>ANSWER<\/b><\/p>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>We were created to fulfill the possibility of purpose and promise in our lives by going through a purification of ourselves in order to be unified. We are placed in situations we asked for to learn the lessons we need to learn. We must learn to work on <u>being<\/u> first and not on <u>doing<\/u>. What are you <u>doing<\/u> but looking outside of yourself for a sense of purpose?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To vest yourself in the false purposes of anything in time is to suffer, as every false purpose eventually turns into a punishment. You are doing <i>time<\/i>, and in time all things must pass. We must look towards the Timeless to fulfill the purpose and promise of our lives. Our work is to be &#8220;in the world but not of it&#8221; by standing on what is Timeless in ourselves in the moment, by anchoring ourselves in God. There is something inside us that can stand the test of time and that doesn&#8217;t get erased willy-nilly. It has nothing to do with doing things, with dividing ourselves up further and further, with being victims over and over again in a world of false promises. We find our purpose in making it our purpose to find what God has seeded within us. What a relief to stop <i>looking<\/i> for happiness, and what promise of True Purpose in each new discovery about ourselves!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUESTION I feel that the key to my elusive happiness is in finally figuring out what the purpose of life is&#8230; I keep looking at what the world offers, but find nothing really lasting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[266,47,41,409,410],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meaning-of-life-lifes-purpose","tag-fulfillment","tag-gods-life","tag-lifes-purpose","tag-meaning-of-life","tag-worldly-possessions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fulfilling the Purpose of Life - Letting Go with Guy Finley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2011\/01\/fulfilling-the-purpose-of-life.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fulfilling the Purpose of Life - Letting Go with Guy Finley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"QUESTION I feel that the key to my elusive happiness is in finally figuring out what the purpose of life is&#8230; 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