One of my terrific clients told me yesterday that she has a “short, sure-fire test for determining whether your mission in life has been fulfilled.” I looked back, amused and waiting and she said simply, “If you’re alive, it hasn’t.”
I smiled back and thought about a story that comes back to me every July when one of these gorgeous summer days descends on us. I find myself quietly staring out at it, remembering the events and emotions of another July day in Colorado, over thirty years ago now.
I’d spent the day with friends on a ranch at the base of the Big Thompson Canyon, right where the Canyon, and its River, push together into the near vertical cliffs of the Narrows before opening up to the farmlands of Larimer County.
We laughed and played and ate our way through the day. But as we relaxed after dinner, something happened that changed our mood in a heartbeat. In the coming hours, my twenty-something heart would be reminded that there are forces bigger than me on the planet, and that I was, I am, here on purpose.
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