Intentional Life

Good afternoon friends and family. Papa, 4 Da Boys here. I’m overwhelmed with gratitude for the privilege of shaping minds, challenging ideas, and being challenged in return. Why did I do it?  Why will I continue to do these things by other means?  Why do WE choose to train up the best among us to be the face of Justice in our countries?  Because more than knowledge to a be a Law Professional, in whatever capacity, we believe that the “Why” of life is the only lasting characteristic of a worthwhile life: living with purpose and meaning is what it’s all about.

 

Purpose is found in living for God, as He is INDISPUTABLY the one that created Everything, Everybody -- US, and all for Relationship, with HIM and with Each Other.  Living with Purpose is living Virtuously, Chivalrously, undergirded with Humility and Grace, aspiring to uplift our fellow man.

 

As professor, my currency was knowledge—precise, verifiable, and rigorously tested. Whether dissecting psychological theories, analyzing models, or debating philosophical frameworks, I chased the thrill of being technically accurate. But Knowledge, for all its power, can become a sterile pursuit if it’s not tethered to purpose. Knowing how people behave doesn’t answer why we’re here or how we ought to live. Technical accuracy, while valuable, is a tool, not a destination.  Meaningful lives are fueled by Purpose.

 

So, where do we find this purpose? It’s in living for God. In God we find highest Truths—in fact He’s the ONLY source of love, truth, and goodness that transcends our finite understanding.  In some of my classes we explored this level of existence as living on the level of SuperErogatories rather than simply walking the line between legality and illegality.  Turning the Other Cheek, Giving rather than Receiving, Leadership through Service, Self-Sacrifice as our guiding Principle --  Living for God means orienting every action, thought, and relationship toward divine purpose, seeking to reflect His grace in a broken world.

 

It’s about embodying God’s will through our daily choices—how we treat our neighbor, how we steward our talents, how we face adversity. It has NOTHING to do with Weakness – allowing those with ideas other than ours’ bullying demands of us to roll over us.  Nor does it mean turning a blind eye to the License people want so badly to give to themselves to do any outrageous LGBTQIA+ or other action they can imagine and demand that we support them in that disgusting behavior.  We’re called to love God with all our heart, soul, and mind, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. That Love is Complete when it includes the element of Correction and Advocacy for the redemption of those souls to the Magnificent Life they were Designed to Live in the first place.   Designed by God.  

 

Standing for something rather than allowing everything is part of Living with Purpose and Meaning.

 

We can see the people around us that live lives of Purpose, because it’s not in what they say, but in what they DO with their lives that matters as they are representatives of the Maker.