We should find our purpose not in grandiose measures of performance, but in touching a single life.

At the end of our days, it will not matter if we made a video with a million views on YouTube, or coded an app that was downloaded 100,000 times, if we built a company that employed 100 people, wrote a bestselling book, or if we gave half the money that we ever made to charity. How easy it is to think that our life is mediocre if we have not done something exceptional in the eyes of the world! How quick we are to dismiss the lives that we have touched and desire grandiose achievement! Jesus redefined exceptional when He said, "Whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward." It is incredible how difficult this truth is. It is something that I have wrestled with for years. Why do we crave purpose from such temporary things? Why are the things that truly matter so easily forgotten? The plain and simple truth is that we do not have the eyes of God, and that we are not seeing things the way that He sees them. "Father, grant us grace today to see reality through your lens. Redefine the distorted view of purpose that we crave as we seek to quantify everything. Show us the value of kindness and love, and help us to feel that our lives have meaning and significance as we seek to touch the life of another."