June 3, 2010 9:31 PM

Why live?

What does this life offer to you that is so amazing, so powerful, that it makes you keep living?

Do you live because you are scared of not living? Do you live because you are scared of the alternative? Do you live because it is all you know, what you feel like you have to be doing?

Life isn't about getting through it, or going through the motions. Life is about embracing the faith that brings beauty, heart, and love to this world. How can something so amazing as this earth be here by accident? How can people as complex, yet fragile as us live on this earth?

We tend to treat this life as if it were a race. Constantly pushing forward, rarely stopping to look around, rarely stopping to help someone who has fallen. But I challenge you to stop. Even if for a moment. Just stop. You may not be ready to turn around, to fix things in your past, to help someone up. But to start, just stop. And look. Tell me there isn't love, there isn't hope, there isn't faith in this world.

But then I challenge you to make the turn. Turn and help someone who has fallen. Turn and show your compassion, your faith, your love to someone who has fallen in this race.

But maybe life isn't about the race. Sure, people will always be running down whatever path they are placed on, but then again others decide to sit on the benches, to play in the fields, to sleep on the hills. Maybe we were put on this earth to run a race. And yet, maybe we were put on this earth to help each other reach the meadow, so they too can sleep amongst the stars, so they too can sing in the light, so they too can play in the fields.

This life isn't worth living if it isn't being lived for others.

This is your life... Are you who you want to be?

As your friend always,

Hope.