Living Life On Purpose

Are You Living Your Life on Autopilot?

Have you ever driven to work, to your local grocery store, or your child to school and realized after you were almost there that you’d been operating on autopilot? Traveling a familiar route can lend itself to distracted thoughts or planning out the day in our mind until we realize that we’ve almost reached our destination and don’t even remember getting there.

Unfortunately, this type of ‘operating on autopilot’ can creep into more than just our morning commute. Hurried days can turn into hurried weeks, months, years…and then what? It’s entirely possible to travel along a path almost subconsciously, hardly in control of our thoughts, our lives, or our relationship with God.

If this sounds way too familiar, it’s okay. God is fully aware of the way we operate and the obstacles that we come up against. That’s why He gave us Proverbs 4, to help us live our lives on purpose.

Living Your Life on Purpose

Sounds like a catchy book title, doesn’t it? But what does it really mean to live our life on purpose. Honestly, living on purpose has to do with paying attention. Autopilot, daydreaming, going through the motions–all of those phrases basically mean the same thing; a lack of ‘paying attention.’ Read more

Finding Strength in Times of Weakness

A Dose of Reality…

This article is a mixture of lessons. It is just as much a call to gratitude as it is a lesson in strength. It is the story of a hero and it is a call to repentance. Repentance for complaining more than we recognize our blessings. Repentance for our inability to STAND through the rough times because it just seems too hard. The lesson comes from the life of a 24 year old girl…not much more than a teenager. Her strength in the face of difficulty should be a challenge to us all….

Life often doesn’t go as planned. That is the understatement of the century for Cory and Dorothy Simons. High School sweethearts with a beautiful son, another on the way and their entire lives before them; then August 14, 2009 happened. Here is their story in Dorothy’s own words:

Cory was on his way home from work on Rossville Blvd in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I had just gotten off the phone with him. It was August the 14th then. When I woke up an hour later (on August the 15, our 5 year anniversary) and realized he wasn’t home, I freaked out. He wasn’t answering his phone so I finally called 911 to ask if my car had been in a wreck. They said they would run a scan and call me back, but when I hadn’t heard from them after 30 min I decided to go look for myself. I figured if anything major had happened he would be at the hospital, so that was the first place I went.

Before entering the hospital I told some officers about my call to 911 and before I even finished my sentence they knew my name and who I was there for. Apparently my phone number had gotten mixed up in all the translation. For about an hour they couldn’t tell me what was going on or what had happened. All I knew was that my husband was in the ER and they were running tests on him. The doctors didn’t expect him to last through the morning. They even gave me his wedding ring because he was so swollen…But he did last. Read more