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CHAPTER T WO



                                  Purpose





               ‘‘Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away,
               yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.’’
                                                              — C. 4:16


               ‘‘I consider my life worth nothing to me . . . if only I may finish the race
               and complete the task . . .’’
                                            —T  P,A 20:22



                       ll of us need a purpose. Work without purpose (even if it
                       takes great skill) can become mindless, heartless drudgery.
                       Add purpose, even to so-called grunt work, and our work
                       lives take on an expanded, even inspired dimension.
               Noah, a novice shipbuilder if ever there was one, was spurred on by
             an ennobling purpose—the knowledge that he was going to save
             enough of the sinful world so that it could continue to survive after the
             most catastrophic natural disaster it had ever experienced.
               Abraham’s purpose was to establish and spread the radical belief that
             there was one God whose spirit permeated and unified the entire uni-
             verse. Until his time, the universe was thought to be split into many
             compartments, each of which had its own reigning force or ‘‘god.’’
               Moses’ great goal was to lead the Hebrews out of Egyptian slavery to
             the edge of the Promised Land. Joshua’s goal was to lead them in. Solo-

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