The Meaning of Life?

My wife Liz read an article about meaningless work yesterday and I wondered why they stopped at work. What about meaningless life?

Douglas Adam's classic series, "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", is set around a search for the meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything. The first attempt to find an answer gives the almost equally famous result, 42. Without spoiling the series, or maybe I am, the next attempt turns life on its head.

And that seems to be the current state of much of our Western society.
Life is turned on its head. We strive to reach a pinnacle of happiness and when we get there we discover it's the pits.

The problem is that we have forgotten our purpose.
In fact, many of us think that there is no purpose in life.
And therefore life is all about enjoyment.

Unfortunately, they are only half right.
Unless we know why we are here then the enjoyment is meaningless.

Humans are the end result of a creative process.
And I'm not talking about human reproduction.
I'm talking about how we came to be here in the first place.

Humanity's creative instinct is not evolved but given.
The One who created us breathed his/her/its nature into us.
We're made to keep the creator company.
And we're placed in a world that offers us creative opportunity.

We're not here only to enjoy ourselves.
We're here to make something along with our creator.

So don't get bogged down in just living.
Live life to the full - creatively.