What Color Is Your Parachute 2018 by Richard N. Bolles copy

Temple called Gratitude.
What is religion? Religion is the service of God out of
grateful love for what God has done for us. The Christian
religion, more particularly, is the service of God out of
grateful love for what God has done for us in Christ.
—PHILLIPS BROOKS, author of O Little Town of
Bethlehem
Comment 6:
The Unconscious Doing of the Work We Came
to Do
You may have already wrestled with this first part of your
Mission here on Earth. You may not have called it that. You may
have called it simply “learning to believe in God.” But if you ask
what your Mission is in life, this one was and is the precondition
of all else that you came here to do. Absent this Mission, it is
folly to talk about the rest. So, if you have been seeking faith, or
seeking to strengthen your faith, you have—willy-nilly—already
been about the doing of the Mission you were given. Born into
This Time in Between, you have found His hand again, and
reclasped it. You are therefore ready to go on with His Spirit to
tackle together what you came here to do—the other parts of
your Mission.