What's our mission?

It's a temptation sometime to want to do something grand. To grab a child off the railroad tracks at the last moment, thus saving a life... or to negotiate a long-lasting peace in the Middle East... or to find a clean, cheap source of energy that will thereby save the environment...

Something that will make those around us - and perhaps God - sit up and take notice. Something that will remove all doubt about our value and worth.

It's a temptation, but it is flawed. It's not possible for the most of us to achieve such heights, and it's not required. From God's perspective, it's not even desired.

The majority of us aren't charged with the task of curing cancer or eliminating world hunger or finding a way to travel to distant galaxies. Our mission lies closer to home and isn't nearly that grand, but it's just as important in its own way. It doesn't have an impact that will change the entire world, but it can make the world right around us just a little bit better. For most of us, that's what God asks of us, and that's all God asks of us. Nothing monumental at all. We don't have to do something glorious to glorify God.

Saint Therese of Lisieux had something to say that should be an encouragement to anyone trying to live a life pleasing to God:

You know that our Lord does not look at the greatness or the difficulty of an action but at the love with which you do it. What then have you to fear?