A Reason for Life

I came across another passage in a book that my grandfather owned (before he passed away 2 years ago). It meant a lot, after reading one of my dear friend's blog entry just the other day. I think each of us, at some point or another, can relate to this passage. Sometimes we question if we are doing "all" we need to be doing for the Lord - wondering if we should be doing more? We see what others are doing, and wonder if that should be our load as well? When truly, as long as we are doing what we feel the Lord is leading us to do personally, that's all that matters. As long as we aim to stay in His perfect will, we can't go wrong!

I'd like to share this with you:

I don't know how to say it, but somehow it seems to me
That maybe we are stationed where God wants us to be.
That the little place I'm filling is the reason for my birth
And just to do the work I do, He sent me down to earth.
If God had wanted otherwise, I recon He'd have made
Me just a little different, or a worse, or better grade.
And since God knows and understands all things of land and sea
I fancy that He placed me here, just where He wanted me.
Sometimes I get to thinking, as my labours I renew
That I should like a higher place with the greater tasks to do.
But I come to the conclusion, when the envying is stilled,
That the post to which God sent me is the post He wanted filled.
So I plod along and struggle, in the hope when day is through
That I'm really necessary to the things God wants to do.
And there isn't any service I can give that I should scorn
For it may be just the reason God allowed me to be born.

W.B. Kuhlke