Yesterday was Monday. Don’t you just love Mondays? Mondays always seem to have more than their fair share of headaches. Our pipes at our manufacturing plant froze and no amount of effort has caused them to unthaw. I backed up over a huge pile of rocks, scraping off paint and denting the passenger side of our car. Then just as the handle on the kitchen faucet broke, making it impossible to turn off the water, the power went out for most of the day. The biggest problem here is no electricity = no computer.

Only a few days earlier I had found and read this to my family: “If you get irritated with the man running the ferris wheel because he won’t let you take your laptop on the ride; you may have a serious problem. We all had laughed when we read it because it hit so close to home. So three hours without the computer… well it was pure torture and no amount of chocolate covered almonds could calm the small seizures my fingers were having.

All dry humor aside, I had several moments of complete awareness of the guidance that is available to us when we make it our pure intent to live life on purpose. My greatest desire is to live the life I was sent here to live…to know when I die and meet my maker that I did what I came here to do.

Today I also thought a lot about a Art Berg, an extraordinary individual. Art was a great man of faith and lived a very successful and accomplished life. He said it started when, as a young adult, he attended a church devotional. The topic of the evening was “When you die are you going to be the full-finished product God intended you to be?” The speaker went on to say, “We have a choice: we can mess around, do life on our own, our own way, or we can surrender to Him and have ourselves and lives sculpted into a grand masterpiece.”

Art said when he heard this message that it cut him straight to the core. And Art made up his mind right then and there to surrender and ask God to use him and give him every experience he needs to be the “finished product.” Only a few weeks later Art Berg broke his neck in a serious automobile accident, leaving him a quadriplegic.

Here is Art’s response to the accident; he said “I asked God not to hold back any experiences I would need to be the finished project and to do everything I came here to do; so I must have needed this.” While he struggled much with his disabilities he went on to be one of the greatest inspirational speakers of his time. Some of his accomplishments include:

-Being recognized by three national sales awards as a computer salesman for a national firm.

-He became President of Invictus Communications, Inc. and eSpeakers.com, Inc.

-The Small Business Administration named Art the 1992 Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

-In 1994, Art was featured in Success magazine as one of the Great Comeback’s of the Year.

-As a member of the National Speakers Association, Art achieved the highest earned designation of Certified Speaking Professional and was inducted into its Speaker Hall of Fame — a status achieved by fewer than 1% of professional speakers.

-Speaking as many as 200 times a year, Keynote Speaker’s Bureau in San Francisco, California named Art as Consummate Professional Speaker of the Year.

Art passed away February 19, 2002, but his legacy still lives on today. I don’t know what your specific mission is, but I do know you have one. And I do know that if you want to live this life to the fullest and do everything you came here to do, you can. Set your intent like Art did. Start asking and surrendering and remember when you are asked to give something up, or you find yourself facing seemingly unbearable trials, remember that you can never out give the giver.

God’s galaxy sized intentions are guaranteed to conflict with our little plans now and then. If we will simply let his wisdom override ours, our uninspired goals will not restrict the story of our lives, and we will become his greatest miracles. ~Wayne Brickey

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