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    What is Your Answer for the Purpose of Your Existence?
    What is Your Answer for the Purpose of Your Existence?
    What is Your Answer for the Purpose of Your Existence?
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    What is Your Answer for the Purpose of Your Existence?

    By David Miller

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    In What is Your Answer for the Purpose of Your Existence?, the author gives remembrances of a life search for an answer—by herewith humbly offering some pathways you may accept as possible to you, for your perusal and pursuit where they pertain to your mind.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTellwell Talent
    Release dateApr 28, 2014
    ISBN9780992489847
    What is Your Answer for the Purpose of Your Existence?
    Author

    David Miller

    David A. Miller is the vice president of Slingshot Group Coaching where he serves as lead trainer utilizing the IMPROVleadership coaching strategy with ministry leaders around the country. He has served as a pastor, speaker, teacher, and coach in diverse contexts, from thriving, multi-site churches to parachurch ministries.

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      What is Your Answer for the Purpose of Your Existence? - David Miller

      WHAT IS

      YOUR ANSWER

      FOR THE

      PURPOSE OF

      YOUR EXISTENCE?

      by

      David Miller

      © David Miller, 2014

      All rights reserved

      This is an IndieMosh book

      brought to you by MoshPit Publishing

      an imprint of Mosher’s Business Support Pty Ltd

      PO Box 147

      Hazelbrook NSW 2779

      http://www.indiemosh.com.au/

      Smashwords Edition Licence Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favourite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted by any person or entity, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, scanning or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the author and publisher.

      Cover design: © David Miller 2014

      The author gives remembrances of a life search for an answer—by herewith humbly offering some pathways you may accept as possible to you, for your perusal and pursuit where they pertain to your mind.

      With sincere gratitude to

      Suzanne & Andrew

      CONFESSION

      The word ‘Dear’ in the text is intended to express its meaning as ‘greatly valued’. Thus Dear Reader, I confess the many errors of my book, and express my gratitude to you for giving of your time to read this far.

      The Humbled Author

      Go, little book, and wish to all

      Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall,

      A bin of wine, a spice of wit,

      A house with lawns enclosing it,

      A living river by the door,

      A nightingale in the sycamore!

      from Envoy, by Robert Louis Stevenson

      And it is just the same with men’s best wisdom. When you come to a good book, you must ask yourself, ‘Am I inclined to work as an Australian miner would? Are my pickaxes and shovels in good order, and am I in good trim myself, my sleeves well up to the elbow, and my breath good, and my temper?’ And, keeping the figure a little longer, even at the cost of tiresomeness, for it is a thoroughly useful one, the metal you are in search of being the author’s mind or meaning, his words are as the rock which you have to crush and smelt in order to get at it. And your pickaxes are your own care, wit, and learning; your smelting-furnace is your own thoughtful soul. Do not hope to get at any good author’s meaning without those tools and that fire; often you will need sharpest, finest chiseling, and patientest fusing, before you can gather one grain of the metal.

      from Sesame and Lillies, by John Ruskin

      Relevant observations to the endeavors of this book:

      ‘You will think me lamentably crude, my experience of life has been drawn from life itself.’

      Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm

      ‘The time has come,’ the walrus said, ‘to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships—and sealing wax—of cabbages and kings …’

      from Alice Through the Looking Glass,

      by Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)

      ‘There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and sinners who think they are righteous.’

      Blaise Pascal

      ‘From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.’

      Groucho Marx

      1. The Overture

      At sometime in our life we pause and behold a mental vision wherein days long past and people and events appear as real, reoccurring now.

      Time is but an imagination. Is the glass of water in my hand there? Water laps the sides as it is moved. Do I see then this moment rippling alive or are they dead remembrances conjured up? Do the seas not move forever; do I see one wave identical as another; turning, turning over, over, ever and ever and ever?

      Is time here or there?

      For whatever we lose,

      (Like a you or a me);

      It’s always our selves,

      We find in the sea.

      from Milly and Molly and Mandy and May,

      by e.e cummings

      Are we not supposed to arrive on this planet as life from the Sea?

      … Home is the hunter,

      Home from the hills;

      And the sailor,

      Home from the sea.

      from Requiem,

      by Robert Louis Stevenson

      The intended journey—for those wishing to read on—is to offer possible answers to this question: Why do I exist?

      Curiosity led Alice Liddell to answer why a white rabbit hurried by. Why are our lives in such a passing, brief, hurry? Curiosity to seek and resolve that question led this author to write this book.

      Lewis Carroll’s Alice was led by ‘Curious’ and ‘More Curious’ pathways. For You and Me there is no more curious a path than that of human life. This book is going to ask you to, please: ‘Let’s follow her’.

      This book is not only for the elderly who have experienced life, not only for those entering this world intent on enquiry, nor just for the many for whom a search for

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