Deum est causa

Our reasons are a lie.  We act on impulses and instinct with a false sense of purpose.  We believe we act for ourselves, for our families, for our neighbors or for our fellow man.  We believe we act for people.  We believe we act to please individual human beings to make them proud, to show them respect, or for reward.  To act on these reasons is not the truth behind our human actions.  We act for God.

We have all been given this precious gift of life not so that we may please one another and leave behind a lasting presence, but so that we may leave this life knowing that we have pleased our creator.  Our purpose is in God’s trust and confidence in us as his children.  We are all stewards of this creation and God gives us the gift of free will to make better both this gift of the earth, but also this gift of life. 

All of God’s children receive different callings in our lifetimes.  Though two may be called to the same profession or vocation, they may be called for an endless list of different reasons.  It is not what we do as a vocation that matters but how we carry out our mission to better ourselves and better the earth through these vocations. 

We may grow up with a calling to follow a family profession either as a natural desire or an implied choice.  It is not the willing choice of the profession or the expectation of that choice that matters, it is how one makes the best of that situation.  Whether one chooses a profession of arms or a profession of peace, both are missions to safeguard their fellow man and preserve the precious gift of life and the world in which we exist. 

An era of humankind is over in an instant to our heavenly father, but it is the lasting impression on the progress and moral fiber of society by which we are judged.  If the purpose is but to leave a lasting legacy in a name or an image then we have failed in our mission.  If the purpose is to leave this earth and our society better than the one into which we were born, then we have succeeded in our mission.  This success may not always be seen through individual works of charity and compassion, but also in the enabling of others to carry out these works.  If we together support those carrying out works through material needs not for recognition but in the belief that God’s work is being carried out, then we are a part of that mission and that endeavor to better society.

If we believe we act to please another, then we have lost sight.  If we carry about in a life designed to please another person and to pay them homage then what legacy do we leave?  What message does this send to our lineage and to the future?  If we live to please mortal beings then we have fallen off the path to do right to please He who has given us the gift of life.  We must live to please our creator.  We must pay Him homage in all of our works and deeds.  For if the future looks back on a generation and sees that they were guided by and right and just

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