The Sum of All Things — How to Find & Use Your True Purpose!

A Meditation on how to Thrive in the Modern World

The American writer and Theologian Frederick Buechner wrote, “Purpose is the place where your deep gladness meets the world’s needs”

Do you think when Frederick penned those words he was anticipating that by 2020 there would be 50 billion connected devices globally? Very probably not, and certainly not as vehicles for allowing our deep gladness to meet the world’s needs, but Wow, think of the potential?

A bigger more connected world?

Undoubtedly, but there’s a caveat with that. We live in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world on one level, but at another more basic and visceral level it is still primarily a world of strangers.

A world in which we can be more responsive to the plight of an adorable dog than the fate of our fellow human beings — And in such a world I believe kindness counts for a great deal.

Yet, how many of us feel so time poor that acts of kindness, however simple, can seem an almost impossibly big ask?

Pablo Picasso reminds us that, “The meaning of life is to find your gift — The purpose of life is to give it away” — Well…