Even Though I’m a Little Nervous, I’m Beginning to Believe My Life Has a Greater Purpose Than I Ever Imagined — The Spiritual Awakening That Helped Me Understand How My Life Can Make a Difference and Help Heal Humanity

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If you felt lonely, isolated, disconnected, with an empty feeling inside, and just yearning for more, knowing something is missing, then this podcast is for you. So here's your host, Joe Mittiga.

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Hello, and welcome to WE.

Have you ever started to believe that maybe your life has a greater purpose than you ever imagined?

And instead of that realization making you feel completely excited, it might make you feel a little nervous.

I don't know about you, but that happens to me a lot.

For much of my life, I really thought that purpose was something I had to go out into the world and find. I thought if I worked hard enough, accomplished enough, made enough money, received enough recognition, or somehow became successful enough, eventually I would discover what my life was supposed to mean.

But something very different happened to me. The more I healed emotionally, the more I've grown spiritually. And the more I've grown spiritually, the more I begin to discover, quite honestly, who I really am.

And the more I discover who I am, the more I find myself asking completely different questions.

You know, like, what is my life isn't only about accomplishing things? What if my life is actually about what can I contribute?

And sometimes that's confusing, but sometimes it's kind of exciting.

But you know what? To be really truthful underneath it all, sometimes it can be kind of scary.

Because believing that our life has a greater purpose means we eventually have to decide whether we're willing to follow it or not.

It's one thing to dream about making a difference.

It's a very, it's another thing to begin believing that maybe you're actually supposed to make a difference.

I spent years talking about healing.

Healing our emotional wounds, healing our relationships, healing the fear that keeps us separate from one another, learning to trust our higher power, learning to love ourselves, learning to love each other.

But I'm beginning to understand something I couldn't see when I first started this journey.

Maybe healing was never supposed to end with me.

Maybe everything I've experienced, you know, the pain, the mistakes, the addiction, the failures, the relationships, the successes, the losses, the spiritual awakening, and even the years when I had absolutely no idea where my life was going, was preparing me to understand something much bigger.

Maybe our greatest pain can eventually become part of our greatest purpose.

Not because we needed to suffer. Of course not. And not because everything painful that happened to us was supposed to happen, no.

But because once we've healed, we get to decide what we're going to do with everything we've learned.

And to me, that's where purpose begins to feel different to me.

Purpose isn't simply asking, what do I want from life?

It begins asking, what does life need from me?

Maybe the person who once felt completely alone becomes the person who helps someone else feel less alone.

Maybe the person who spent years believing they weren't enough becomes the person who reminds someone else that they are.

Maybe the person who had to learn how to heal becomes someone who helps another human begin healing.

And maybe that's how we begin changing the world. Not all at once, of course. Not through one person, no. But through millions of people healing themselves, then carrying that healing into their families, relationships, communities, and eventually into humanity.

That's the idea of purpose feels so much bigger to me today. That's why it does.

I'm beginning to believe that who we become affects more than our own lives.

When I become more loving, someone experiences more love. When I become more compassionate, someone experiences more compassion.

When I heal my fear, I stop passing as much of that fear to somebody else.

When I live authentically, maybe, just maybe, I give someone else permission to do the same.

And when enough of us begin doing that, something extraordinary becomes possible. We begin to heal humanity.

Today, I want to talk about that transition. The moment when personal growth begins becoming purpose, when healing begins becoming service, when the question changes from, who am I becoming, to what am I becoming for?

I don't have every answer.

And I don't know exactly where this journey's gonna lead me. And to be honest with you, sometimes that's still a little scary, and a lot of times I feel really lost. But maybe, just maybe, faith isn't knowing exactly where our higher power is taking us.

Maybe faith is becoming willing to follow anyways.

Because I'm beginning to believe my life has a greater purpose than I imagined. I'm beginning to believe something even greater about yours too.