Hannah’s Daily Note

So many women who spend their lives giving – whether that’s working in a role that serves others like teaching, medicine, public service; or it’s taking care of aging parents or a young family or community – assume that because the work they do is purposeful, that must mean they are living with purpose.

But what if purpose isn’t as simple as that? Of course, our ultimate purpose is to worship Allah – but if we carry out our ‘purposeful’ work completely disconnected from Him, can we really say we are living our purpose?

I heard an idea once that if you are not living completely true to yourself, then it doesn’t matter how meaningful your work is, you don’t have purpose. You could be a doctor saving lives, but if that job isn’t truly and deeply what you want for yourself, then there is no true purpose. The same can be said for a missing connection with your Creator. If what you do, how you ‘serve’ others or make yourself ‘purposeful’ isn’t tied to a remembrance or worship of Him, then that might just be the reason you still feel an emptiness at the end of the day.

So what would it feel like to bring Allah to the forefront of your consciousness in everything you do? Perhaps only then can we resolve the real cause of that sense that our true purpose might just be missing.