“Everyone who breathes, high and low, educated and ignorant, young and old, man and woman, has a mission, has a work. We are not sent into this world for nothing; we are not born at random; we are not here, that we may go to bed at night, and get up in the morning, toil for our bread, eat and drink, laugh and joke, sin when we have a mind, and reform when we are tired of sinning, rear a family and die. God sees every one of us; He creates every soul, . . . for a purpose. He needs, He deigns to need, every one of us. He has an end for each of us; we are all equal in His sight, and we are placed in our different ranks and stations, not to get what we can out of them for ourselves, but to labor in them for Him. As Christ has His work, we too have ours; as He rejoiced to do His work, we must rejoice in ours also.”—John Henry Cardinal Newman, "God's Will the End of Life," from Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations (1849)
I think I love you.
Seriously, I had a dream about Heaven once.
To enter my Heaven, it didn't matter what you did as long as you loved it and wanted to be really good at it.
If you were a rice farmer, and you wanted to be the best at farming rice, and you loved it, then you were in.
These are the people who are the elite.
It's not about money.
It's about the ability to love growth and dedication to something higher.
Dare I say it? To find the Divine in the Mundane.
I'm printing this out and hanging it on my wall.
I absolutely love this.
Beautiful
People who are good at what they love make the world better.
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