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People do need to have a purpose, some direction in life, both before and after retirement.

—Louise Jerome

Getting up every morning is far more exciting when we can anticipate being engaged with people or activities that interest us. Mattering to the world around us is important. Even when we aren't consciously aware of it, we matter to everyone we come into contact with. This has always been true and nothing has changed.

While still occupied in a profession or as a homemaker we didn't often doubt that we had a purpose. We had a place to be every day and tasks to be completed. We might not have considered that what we did made much of a contribution to the greater world, but we knew it counted, nonetheless. It's not as easy to believe this now. Maybe that's because we aren't currently involved in any specific activities that touch other people. But few days pass that we don't have contact with at least one other person. Quite possibly, that's the only purpose we have right now: being present to that one individual, whoever he or she might be.

Our purpose need not be grand to be important. God has need of each one of us. We are still needed, absolutely. All we have to do is “report for duty.” We do that by awaking each morning.

I look to today with anticipation. God has a job for me and I'm ready.

—from Keepers of the Wisdom