WHAT ARE YOU BUILT FOR AS A MAN?

We all must inquire from time to time, ‘What the hell am I doing here anyway?  What is my Purpose?  Why am I here?’

Maybe instead of turning to the heavens and inquiring about our purpose, we can take a more introverted approach and ask, ‘What exactly am I built for?’

Here today, as you are, what are you built for?

As Barbara Walters might ask, if you were a dog, what kind of dog would you be?

Are you retriever who is built for retrieving birds that your master has shot down?

Are you a herding dog who is built to herd sheep?

Are you a blood hound used to track deer or even humans?

Are you a terrier built to kill rats?

Are you a Saint Bernard that was bred to rescue people caught in mountain storms.

Are you a Newfoundland Dog built to rescue drowning fishermen in the north Atlantic?

Which dog breed are you?

What are you built for?

How does a man determine what kind of breed he is?

Ask yourself these questions:

What is the level of burden you are built to carry?  Are you carrying that much?  Are you carrying too much?  Are you carrying too little?

Where have you served others?  What have others found you useful for?  What have others sought you out for?  What have others used you for?

What can you not stand seen done badly?  In what field are you a snob, where you judge the work of others harshly because you know their work can be done better and you know how to do it better?

In what area of life do you feel inspiration and insight comes to you more easily?  What is the field in which, when you seek assistance, assistance is given.  When you make inquiries in this field, answers appear?

In which field, if you were to engage your energies fully, you would go to bed each night properly tired and peaceful.  Not that you were getting rich or world famous or on your way to great success.  But you would feel well-used.

In which task or field have people been readily willing to pay you for what you bring?

After all that, we may more fruitfully ask ourselves, ‘What is my Soul Purpose?’

—- Om Rupani

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