How Do You Define Yourself?

Why is there such a longing for a more fulfilled and meaningful life? Maybe it is nothing more complicated than simply being too busy. Consider, for example, two books presented in book reviews by the Wall Street Journal (March 7, 2000, page A-24).  One was entitled The Working Life and the other There's No Place Like Work.
 
The reviewer gives this summary: "...we are working longer and harder than ever before. Indeed, statistics prove this is so. But to what end? Yes, standards of living are higher, and incomes too. But some of us are beginning to wonder whether it's worth it..." The reviewer goes on to say that the books in question make the following arguments:

• that Americans have been brainwashed into believing that work is a source of self-fulfillment
• that feminism has degraded the woman's role as mother and homemaker, leading to "a systematic devaluation of home life, leading to a social pathology in children raised without full time parents."

Interesting ideas! If nothing else, they illustrate the pervasive extent to which we Americans, men and women alike, define ourselves by what we do, not who we are.

Want to know why we have so much difficulty discovering our destiny? It's because the answer to the question "What am I supposed to do with my life?" is determined by our answer to another question: "Who am I supposed to become?"

What kind of person are you supposed to become?

If you are serious about discovering your destiny, the journey begins when you replace "do" with "who" and you start to discover the you that God created you to be.