Do

If you're asking what your purpose is, what you were made for, then the answer is simple.  You were made for God.  Therefore it is important to do what will bring you closer to Him.  But it is more important to let Him do what will bring you together - the Sacraments.

Believe

God does not set us impossible tasks.  He believes in us, in our ability to choose to love which He has given us.  Anyone can be a Saint, He has given us everything we need.  He believes in you, even when you don't believe in Him.

Power

If you can only think in terms of power, of taking - not giving, then you have no love, and you certainly shouldn't marry.

Warfare

If you would be a spiritual warrior, then you must battle the Devil with all your strength.  When he tempts you, not only must you resist temptation, but you must counterattck with prayer and other acts of virtue.  Challenge the enemy, for every temptation you catch him attempting, pray the Rosary.  Scourge him for every attempt on your soul, and then spread your efforts to those around you, your friends, family, and other loved ones.  Ask God to aid you and no devil shall impede you. Remember it is Christ who conquers, and you shall make the demons dread leaving you untempted, and dread tempting you even more.

Labels

Politics have their place, but the labeling of those who disagree with you is merely an attempt at dehumanization to justify your own beliefs or to justify treating them differently than you would any other human person.  Saints cannot associate only with other Saints, for all Saints are sinners.  And it is the sick who need a doctor.  If you want to be a Saint, you must love even those you disagree with.

Exceptions

We always need to keep in mind the Law of Exceptions.  This is the law that states that news, to be news, must be an exception to the rule, extraordinary as opposed to ordinary.  What it also means is that the news is always displaying a false picture of the world.  We see tragic exceptions in far greater number through the lens of journalism.  So don't lose hope. Yes, there is evil in the world, but also there is great good, often very ordinary good. Remember the good.

Sickness

To visit the sick is a work of mercy. Does that ever strike you as strange, that it isn't to heal the sick, or care for the sick? The other works tend to seek the end of a particular evil, this one does not. This one does something very different - though a corporal work, it treats a spiritual ill.  Loneliness. We all know that sickness is very lonely, particularly in our times.  The sick are often at home alone while friends and family work.  Or they are in hospitals which are not even homely, but sterile and a constant reminder of the business their disease has become.  The sick suffer, and they suffer singly, very rarely are they in a whole community of sickness, and their suffering shrinks their world, narrows it down until the suffering is all they see.

And most importantly, they are lonely because of the fear.  Those who are sick are afraid to infect others.  Those who are not sick are afraid to be infected.  To visit the sick is a corporal work of mercy because it challenges this fear through the Incarnation.  It says to sickness, my God became flesh, endured sickness, knew its loneliness, because we were sick in our flesh.  It says to the sick, as He loved me, so I shall love you.  I will not be afraid.  I will be yours.  This is the only cure for loneliness, the gift of the self from another.  Thank you to the Saint who taught me this yesterday.  Thanks be to God for making me sick.

Radical

I have found that we often look for radical ways to live and express our faith.  We think up schemes involving dramatic change, and grand purpose.  These things are really more about doing something big, we are looking to change the world, to do something with our lives that is worthwhile.  God also did something radical, but it did not make Him bigger.  God renounced all the glory of His own divinity, His radical action was to go from the King of the Universe to a babe in a stable.  From Creator of the Heavens to carver of wood in a workshop, toiling in obscurity.  And He changed the world.  Don't go looking for radical change to feed your ego.  Make the radical change of converting your every day, ho-hum existence into a life lived like Christ's own.  Renounce pride.  Live radically.  Change the world.