Do you believe in fate, destiny or purpose?   This question has been daunting me the last few days because I came to this profound realization and re-realization that I am nothing but a servant.  I can’t really say that I believe in destiny beyond that we were destined to have a purposeful life.  There is no doubt in my mind that I have been blessed– blessed financially, purposefully, career-oriented, merited many awards and medals, many strong friends and family members, etc. but what is it all for?  I am not saying this to give me any glory whatsoever.  I am interested in the meaning behind it…

It also ties into many discussions that I have had with my roommate about our journey together.  We grew up in a small town– check.  But.  I can go so far back with “what ifs” and it is exactly how I got here today:

  1. My mom saw an  ad on the morning news and in inspiration thought that it would be beneficial for me to go to a vocational school and learn animation.   So we decided to pursue it cause it would be fun for a teenager.  This would prove to be a miracle in itself.  I was too young to enter the school, but they, for some odd reason, decided to make an exception and accepted me.
  2. Without Mr. Burke at RTI, I wouldn’t have had the chance to win multiple awards which improved my resume, artistic value, and cultural awareness.  I expressed a lot of my ideas and faith in my artwork and it received much recognition.
  3. Without a successful run at RTI I wouldn’t have gotten a scholarship to go to the art institute of OC to pursue animation.  And my roommate had a large part to play as he was with me along this journey.
  4. Without pursuing animation and working at EON Reality, I wouldn’t have exposure to programming…
  5. Without my roommates urge to go to this girls birthday (brothers long distance crush on this girl was the only connection we had, never even met her) I would have never heard about Rock Harbor.
  6. Without AI, I wouldn’t have been near the church that gave me my biggest awakening to missions (Rock Harbor)
  7. Without being a part of Trinet Solutions, EON Reality, and Freelancing, I wouldn’t have ever landed a job at in the 2Advanced spectrum.
  8. And now I have a killer job with crazy awesome co-workers, with super cool missional friends and a servant’s life– And the most interesting thing is that I would give it all up if someone would come to know the Love that I have in my heart which only comes from Jesus.

Now, what if all of this was a purposeful chain of blessings that enabled me to talk to someone that needed to hear Christ’s love?  Whether its at my work, my home, my neighborhood– Who knows what kind of effect you have.  These blessings keep us moving in a direction of purpose.  And the realization is, I have been impacting people along the way, and there have been people who have severely impacted my life which God placed in my path.  Just this simple illustration shows that there is a bigger picture, but I could go on for pages and pages about how my journey has been molded by events and experiences and people that have loved me.

Who knows how many people I effected along this journey…  Negatively, or positively.  How many of those people know that they have impacted my life?  And I must say, this is only my career path– There are so many other factors to this story… I am just in awe at its complexity in design and execution… And all I had to do was say, “Yes.”