Have you ever questioned your purpose?

  Have you ever wondered if God has a plan for your life?  Have you ever asked your self; is this all there is? Is this all I was put on earth do? To get up each day, to go to work, to come home, to clean the house, cook the food, clean up go to bed get up the next day and start all over again? I remember being a young mother somewhere in my 30's asking that very question. I began at that time to question my purpose, what was I put here on earth to do. At night I would get down on my knees and pray, I would ask the Lord to reveal to me his purpose in my life. I truly wanted to know what Gods plan for my life was.  I worked as a decorator I had a wonderful business that I loved! My clients would fly me all over to redo their new homes. But I always felt a tugging in my heart that there was something else I was to do. My life was full between raising a family,work and church there wasn't much time for anything else. But still I kept praying about my purpose in life. Then out of the blue my beatuiful daughter was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Our world was turned upside down. Cancer had crept into my house and with it came fear and worry, it was uncharted territory for all of us. I shed many tears as I watched her in her days of suffering. My purpose was very clear at that time in my life it would be to do everything I could to help her survive her illness. I thought many times this must be my purpose to take care of my daughter. I couldnt see the big picture because I was so caught up in my now! My daughter made it through it was a long year of treatments but she is fine and is married now with two beatuiful children. If you would have asked me back then if I could ever see myself going into detention centers to work with incarcerated young men I probably would have looked at you as though you had two heads!! I never could have pictured myself doing anything like that. I was a decorater through and through!  Detention  centers would be dreary and depressing places that I probably feel the need to decorate. Since there was never anywhere that I would go that I would not feel the need to rearrange or tidy up the place.But remember I spent many years seeking Gods plan for my life and it wasn't until just a few years ago that I really began to understand the depths of HIS purpose for my life and not MINE or my agenda. You know something, from the very first time I walked in the detention center four years ago there has never been one time did I think "this place needs a face lift" all I ever thought about is how can I put a smile on these kids faces.