The Big Questions of Life

I gotta admit, all through high school and much of college my mindset was "Why reflect on life, I'm too busy living it!"  While I still believe there are merits to that mindset, we also need markers to help us know if we're still on course, to help us know if we are growing, standing still, or diminishing, to help us to know if we're progressing or regressing.  To know that we have to have a goal.  The world will give us many goals to strive for - many of which will destroy us or divide us.  Reflection allows us to evaluate our goals, how we are achieving them, and whether or not they align with God's goal for us.
To facilitate this evaluation I will write on - and encourage you to chime in on - three basic questions:
1)  Where do I come from?
2)  Where am I going?
3)  How do I live in the present in a way that reflects the first two?

"Catechesis on creation is of major importance.  It concerns the very foundations of human and Christian life: for it makes explicit the response of the Christian faith to the basic question that men of all times have asked themselves: 'Where do we come from? Where are we going? What is our origin? What is our end? Where does everything that exists come from and where is it going?'"  The two questions, the first about the origin and the second about the end are inseparable.  They are decisive for the meaning and orientation of our life and actions."  Catechism of the Catholic Church #282

I ask and begin to answer the three above questions in the homily of July 18, but will take a more in-depth consideration in future posts.