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Day 5: What we see where circles intersect.

In the movie Iron Man, the character Tony Stark has been kidnapped and will certainly be killed unless he uses his gifts to escape. Because he is an inventor, he draws the weapon to facilitate what’s needed. To conceal what he is building from his captors, he places different pieces of his weapon on different sheets of thin, translucent paper and begins building what he needs. When his associate doesn’t understand what they are working on, Tony places the papers together over a light that shines through them all, and only then can everyone see what he is creating.

In the same way, for the past few days, we have been asking questions that, in some ways have nothing to do with each other…until now. On this last day, let’s put these three circles into a Venn diagram. For those of you who might not know what that is, a Venn diagram is where the edges of three circles overlap like the circles on the Olympic flag, with two circles on top and one on the bottom, with all three intersecting on the edges.

Look at the spot where all of the circles overlap! That is the “sweet spot” of your life’s purpose.

If you could wake up tomorrow morning and live a life that best expresses this picture, what would it look like? Don’t worry about making a living. It may take time, but anyone whose life reflects these answers will have tremendous value soon. Don’t worry about timing. God has a time for you to be “you,” even if that time has not yet come. Don’t worry about what other people will think. Everyone who knew Moses must have thought he was crazy when he told them about his conversation with a burning bush. The King of Israel tried to talk David out of fighting Goliath. Peter tried to talk Jesus out of going to the cross! In time, as we obey, God will pay the bills, open the doors, and calm our loved ones, and the poetry of God will be seen for what it is.

One last superpower I know you have—your ability to dream.

We are the only thing God created with the ability to envision a tomorrow that is different from today and then set a course in that direction. My dog dreams of chasing rabbits (or muffins? She’s an English bulldog, so probably not rabbits), but she doesn’t dream of a future.

All of creation survives. We are created to live!

We set our course and move in the direction of what we believe. What do you see when you look at the course where these three circles overlap? That is the direction for you to start walking! That is the life you were created to live! That’s your sweet spot. That’s the life Jesus called “abundant.” That’s…“you.” Now start walking!

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