Article August 23, 2010 Issue

A purpose-FULL Journey

A visit to China clarifies the importance of universal family and letting our light shine.

BY CATHERINE TREVOR-ROBERTS

DO YOU EVER WONDER WHY YOU'RE HERE? Do you ever wonder what your purpose is?

Throughout my life, I've pondered those questions. I looked for answers in school degrees, in jobs, in relationships, but no matter how much I looked to these things to find my purpose, I never found a completely fulfilling answer.

Then, one day I read this statement by Mary Baker Eddy in her book Science and Health: "His [Jesus'] mission was to reveal the Science of celestial being, to prove what God is and what He does for man" (p. 26). I realized that our mission, as God's children, as students of the Christ, is to prove what Jesus proved: "what God is and what He does for man."