What brings fulfillment? Where do you find meaning? Is it landing that job you have wanted for months or even years? Is that when you will be satisfied? Or maybe when you get that degree and get that schooling out of the way. Once you have that diploma, will you be content then?
Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychologist survived the Holocaust and lived to write about his experience with the human condition. He authored several books but the one that still sells today is Man’s Search for Meaning. In his book, he came to the conclusion that the way to find the meaning for your life is to help someone else find the meaning for theirs. Jesus had said something similar almost 2,000 years before when he said, “if we will lose our life for his sake we will find it.” In other words, life – true, meaningful and purposeful life – only exists when we give it away. It is in committing ourselves to a cause or another outside ourselves that we find meaning.
What I have found is that when I go looking for meaning, it is like trying to hold water in my hands – illusive and impossible to grasp. But when I seek to focus my devotion on loving and serving God – meaning finds me.
If you would have fulfillment, you will find it in serving.
Go be a blessing today!
Clay in the Hands 
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