Lifeview 2026-01-25

This is my Lifeview (Designing Your Life ) as of 25 January 2026.

We’re here because we’re here. I don’t know why we’re here. I can tell you why we’re here from a high-level biological, ecological perspective. I can tell you why we’re here from a number of different Christian perspectives. I’m still not sure what the meat of it is, though. We’re here because we’re here.

The human experience is a wonderful mystery to me. It’s fascinating; it’s wretched; it’s glorious; it’s beautifully flawed; it’s painful; and it’s joyous. What’s it’s purpose, though? If it has one, I can’t tell you what it is. All I know is that I feel it and connect with it the most through community and shared experience. Shared experience doesn’t have to be synchronous. It can manifest in storytelling, music, or art.

Community seems to be at — or at least near — the core of the human experience. Community can happen at all scales, but it looks very different at drastically different scales.

Another feeling of purpose in life is related to identifying and living into the True Self. I’m still working on this. Each person’s True Self is unique in some way. It’s tied closely to vocation (calling), and the diversity of True Self is what allows community to work. It’s what makes community engagement so beautiful.

I also believe that this current, mortal human experience (call it life if you like) is only part of the story. I’m not sure what exactly comes after death. I believe in the resurrection of the soul, but I only have a vague idea of what that truly entails. What I do think, though, is that the eternal life — the resurrection — will be a fulfillment, a bigger, fuller, purer, truer, corrected, redeemed, and restored version of this human experience. I have a sense that we are co-creators in that reality-to-come and that, possibly, my highest purpose is to begin bringing that resurrection into reality simply where I’m at.

Good brings us into a closer communion with each other and with God, and evil pushes us farther away. We’re all part of Creation together, and anything that separates us from each other, from Creation, also separates us from God.