Surviving Widowhood: Finding Your Purpose

No one ever said widow life was easy. It isn’t. It’s doggone difficult and some days you feel like you want to just crawl in a hole and stay there. Other days, you feel good, ready to take on the world and arm wrestle the devil. And those other days, the in between days, you feel like you’ve lost your purpose. Not quite ready to die, but doing no arm wrestling, either.

So often, we feel our purpose in life is wrapped up in our spouses. And when they’re gone, we feel our purpose has left with them. Let me say right here..:it’s perfectly normal to feel that way—perfectly normal. When the other half of a whole is missing, naturally we feel the loss. It takes God, time and prayer in order to recover from that type of loss. However, God created us with a purpose and that purpose did not change because we lost our spouse. It merely changed directions.

It takes a while to recover our bearings. That’s to be expected. But when we do, and we eventually do, we are faced with the question, “Now what?” Let me state right now…I do not know the answer to this question. Only God knows that. My “now what” will be different than yours. But you do have one. Even though it may feel like you will never breathe again, you will. You are here for a reason. You just need to just discover what it is.

My pastor spoke on Sunday about the first chapter of Genesis. His point was throughout the chapter the words “and God said,” was liberally interspersed throughout the book. At the end of the chapter in verse 31, one word changes…it goes from “God said” to “God saw.” The entire first chapter of Genesis is describing things that God spoke into being…things only He could’ve created. And at the finale of His creation, after speaking all of creation into existence, He saw the result of his handiwork was very good. In other words, God’s vision is the direct result of what He spoke. He spoke it, He molded it, He saw it—the result of what He envisioned all along—the things that were inside Him to create. Our purpose and vision function the same way. We speak, we act, we see. That’s the process.

The video today goes right along with this, so I’m gonna post a link below. Find your purpose. And do it! Don’t let anything stop you from fulfilling your calling.