![]() That very large question, what is the purpose of my life? For King Charles 111 and Pussy Riot, they will always have an active purpose for their lives to live at least until they too, find themselves in the equivalent of a nursing home, bedbound. Boredom, loneliness and the futility of a life lived mostly in bed, with diminishing physical abilities inevitably leads to a dark hopeless mind. These facilities are expensive and can drain a family’s savings very quickly, without some form of government assistance. To get out of bed to go to the bathroom often requires someone else’s help and can take a long time to happen. The majority of their time is spent alone in a room with a television. If they are fortunate, they may have family who are able to visit, but that may be for only hours in a week or month. For most of those people, television is the only entertainment or company they have for most of the day. There were some 1.4 million people in nursing homes in America and an additional 900,000 in Assisted Living Care, who more than likely saw some of those news reports. These were two notably different stories which were in the ‘news media’, that day. Their protests cost them years in Russian prisons, which again must have required purpose, hope and faith, to survive. It was rewarded for speaking for the less able through their music and performance serving as a positive force for social change in Russia. From a very different story, on the same day two members of the dissident Russian rock group, Pussy Riot, “Masha” Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova, received the Woody Guthrie Prize. The long road which King Charles travelled to his coronation day must have required purpose, hope and faith. Last Saturday, King Charles 111 was crowned with Queen Camilla. Each aspiration or change that comes our way. Hope is essential to living through each bump or challenge we encounter. Without a foundation of faith, we can not maintain hope when our purposes fade.Īs our lives evolve and we go through the different seasons of life, the purposes we live for change it is an inevitable part of growth and pursuing our desires in this extraordinary life, we have been given. ![]() Our changing purposes, create changing hopes when supported by a steadfast faith. So often the message of the Gospel has not been opened to them through a loving heart.įor whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. Those who do not have an underpinning of faith that a better life is to come after death, are left in a void where hopelessness focuses them on their physical decline and not their spiritual gain. This has been a very difficult article for Michael to write, because in his Chaplaincy work, he encounters many people who have lost all purpose to live and have lost hope. ![]()
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