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Pursuing Purpose Heals the Soul

July 27, 2016 By Sue Miley Leave a Comment

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Pursuing Your Purpose

After a decade of working 60-70 hours per week, I hit a wall called burnout.  It was a high, thick wall that knocked me out figuratively.  I needed sleep and peace.  A different pace in life.

Once I was out of the all-encompassing job, sleep came, but peace still alluded me.

I found another job with more normal hours and started sleeping my weekends away, but the only healing at this point was physical.  My soul still ached.  I was still weary.

It was really frustrating because I had always been on fire; passionate for my job and calling.  Wondering if I would ever feel that passion or sense of purpose again was exacerbating my soul sickness.

Having found Christ (or vice versa) I no longer found purpose in business alone.  Profits as the only measurement of success lacked significance and could not ignite my heart anymore.  I needed a deeper calling.  A mission.  God’s plan for my life.

Don’t we all?

A mom who lovingly pours her heart into the family meals that bring her husband and kids together each day.
A pastor who spends countless hours studying and shepherding his flock so that each may know his Savior.
A doctor who brings physical healing.
An inventor who shows the world how to fly.
An architect who brings vision and art into a physical structure.
A child who buttons their first shirt or eats their spaghetti all by themselves and cheers “yay me” through a sauce covered smile.

Small or big, following God to a purpose, for the moment or even a career, brings life.  It strengthens our faith and heals our soul.

I found purpose on the other side of burnout.  When I stopped long enough to seek God and was still enough to listen, in His faithfulness, God called.

At first it was in giving me a heart for helping others.

Then He guided me to use a dormant passion of writing to encourage.

And even in the hard work of a new education, a downsized standard of living, and a different pace of life, I learned that pursuing our purpose even through trials, was part of the healing.

You don’t need a new career to find purpose.

Significance isn’t necessarily in a grand mission.

It can be in the pursuit of God’s will.  It can be through loving, not necessarily doing.  It is always a matter of the heart.

And it is available to us all.

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Filed Under: Christian Living Tagged With: burnout, faith, God's will, purpose, relationship with God, Trust

About Sue Miley

Sue earned her undergraduate degree in Finance at Louisiana State University in 1986. In 1993 she completed her Masters in Business Administration with a focus on Marketing. In 2004, she earned a Masters in Education – Community Counseling.

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