Do you know that you have a unique identity? Do you know that you also have a unique destiny that only you can fulfill? You should look at being yourself as a full time job. Yet how many people do you know who are trying to be someone other than who they are? You could call this hero worship, or emulation, or adoration, or attachment, or being a fan. That the concept goes by so many names shows how prevalent it is. But you cannot live someone else’s life, and if you attempt to do so you cannot live your own. Do not reject the gift that I have given to you alone.

Are you happy? Are you leading a meaningful life? Do you see these as the same thing? People have different views of happiness and how to obtain it. Some people in the pursuit of happiness will lead lives of pleasure and self-indulgence. Does this make them truly happy? Others lead lives of great sacrifice and strenuous effort on behalf of a noble cause that they esteem greater than their own comfort and ease. Does this seem like a peculiar way to pursue happiness? Yet it is a better way to find meaning, and who can be happy without a meaningful life?

Where do you expect help to come from? Looking to me is a good practice. What form do you expect my assistance to take? Do you expect the heavens to part and have clearly supernatural divine intervention? How often has this happened for you? Yet I still provide for you. Are you disappointed if it comes in very ordinary everyday ways? I can do whatever I want and if I prefer to work in ways that are not obvious, I will. What is a proper response from you? Are you just as aware that it is from me if it is not a miracle? Are you just as grateful?

Who do you go to for help? Who goes to you? Everyone has someone they go to in their hour of need, but not everyone is on someone else’s list to seek out. People have an intuitive sense or well-founded experience as to who is willing, capable, and available to assist others, and these are sought out while others are not. Which one are you? Do you recall the story of the Good Samaritan? He took the initiative to show kindness to a stranger.