We live on an amazing planet. Consider its diversity of terrain – mountains, valleys, plains and deserts, mighty rivers and babbling brooks. We have rain, fog, mist, snow and ice falling on our homes and heads. Mornings and evenings paint beautiful mosaics as the sun shines through the clouds.

Consider the diversity of life, from earth worms to elephants. The waters hold an amazing variety of strange and beautiful creatures – each fulfilling a unique purpose. Some filter and clean the waters, others dazzle us with their beauty and strangeness, and some are food for other creatures.

Then there is the flora – magnificent trees, eye-pleasing flowering shrubs. There is the spectrum of greens -- from dark to light. Flowers come in all colors of the rainbow and in mixed shades.

We live on a planet suited for man. Yes, there are challenges we face that strengthen us, but there are the joys of eating with family and friends from the limitless variety of foods of every texture and taste.

When was the last time you put down your smart phone or turned off the television and asked: Is there a purpose for life? And if so, what is it? Am I merely the product of blind evolutionary forces? If so, how can there be meaning? And how can there be life beyond the grave? Simply put, why are you here?