Where is Your Mission Leading You?

While missions ostensibly are formed to add some contribution or service to a place of need, often they take on a life of their own quite independent of our intentions for our lives.

For instance, we can set off to follow some inner inspiration that may be leading us to create something that will bring light or joy to others. And we can plan and plan to do so in a way that can bring us money in return, perhaps even sufficient for us to support ourselves and provide for our families.

But when it comes down to it, there may be some deeper intention at work than subordinating our will to the manifestation of that inspiration and its birth for the world.

For our missions create experiences for our lives that can have little to do with whether anyone else ever receives or benefits from them at all. First and foremost is setting aside our own inhibitions simply to let ourselves create in an inspired, and probably relative to the rest of our lives, novel way.

Our zeal can lead us to quit jobs and move to new locations without having anything other than blind hope that we will be rewarded for following that star. But whether that hope is ever rewarded remains to be seen, and depends less on the inspired contribution of our mission than the underlying intentions of our souls.

What is it that we intend for this life in the first place? What are the patterns that we've seen before? How could these be manifesting in new ways? What are the challenges that it is creating, and the emotions we're experiencing? How do we meet and respond to them?

All of these can provide valuable hints to an inner intention that may remain quite unknown to our outer minds, leaving us to flounder in the expression of our mission to serve or contribute.

Just understand that your mission, once undertaken, is a choice to travel a path that you truly know not where it leads or what it brings. Your job is simply to follow it and do your best each step along the way.

And if and when the time comes that you're filled with the urge to go another direction or do it another way, then perhaps you will make another choice and set something else in motion.

Remember, it's your life. Don't judge yourself based on the appearance of outer success or failure of your mission. Rather, simply give thanks for the experiences it brings, however they make you feel, and know that through them you are adding a valuable piece to the collective consciousness that makes up this reality.

God bless you indeed.