NO HEAVEN

Physicist Stephen Hawking, cosmologist and Britain's most eminent scientist recently stated that he has concluded that there is no such thing as God.  He went on to suggest that we should live our lives to the fullest now because this life is probably all there is.

Well!  Ponder that.  It makes sense that we should stop deluding ourselves.  But, I don't know.  Most of us just want to believe that there is something else.  Something more.  Something bigger. We want someone to figure out how all of this came to be. Maybe Dr. Hawking was just tired of thinking about it. I'm sure we've all tried to connect the dots.  It's just mind-boggling.

Of course if we do live our lives as if this is all there is - what's the point of that?  Should we just stop looking for answers?  And what about the non-physical part of our existence?  What about our minds, our thoughts, our dreams?  Where does that come from and how did thought get attached to our physical beings?

I am not a religious person by any means.  In fact, I am one of the legions of lapsed Catholics populating the world today.  I should say angry, lapsed Catholics.  I don't know that I've heard of a lapsed one of any other kind of religion.

Sorry, I digress.  But, I'm not buying what you're selling---Stephen Hawking.  We still need to figure this out.
But, just in case he's right, I promise to remember to live as though this is all there is.  However, I want my heaven.  


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LIFE LIVED WITH PURPOSE

Isn't life just better when you have purpose? I don't necessarily mean the kind of purpose you search for to explain your existence. I'm talking about purpose for getting up in the morning, purpose for living, purpose for looking forward, purpose for trying, purpose for expecting good things to happen. This is purpose you choose because it makes you happy or at least makes you feel good about yourself.

Figuring out what gives you purpose is especially tricky when you become the age of us baby boomers. For the most part, we have already gotten all the formal education we will get in this lifetime. We have already had, or not had, children and have given raising them our best shot. We have had jobs, careers, businesses, made and lost money, travelled. We have pretty much been there and done that. We may not be ready to retire, but we are ready to do something else.

But what? What will give you purpose? I bet if you look inside, you can find it. The purpose you find will impact your happiness. It will impact your outlook on life. It will freshen your vitality and make you a joy to be around. You have now lived long enough to know what you have to give and have experienced a few things that made you happy. Make use of that information. What do you like to do? What makes you happy? What is fulfilling? Make a list.

Your purpose can be simple-such as smiling when you go out for the purpose of getting a smile back. Your purpose can be something greater-such as helping others. You can volunteer, start a business or create a foundation with purpose in mind.

But you don't need big purpose to get the satisfaction you seek. Start with something small and keep piling on. But you need enough, often enough, to keep your fires burning. Just existing or being available is not purpose, now is it? Don't fool yourself. Now, get to skipping!

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