Destiny! Destiny! No escaping that for me.  These memorable words were uttered by Dr. Frederick Frankenstein in Mel Brook’s hilarious comedy “Young Frankenstein.”  Unlike Dr. F., for most of us, there is a real possibility of missing our destiny.  Once we have succeeded in our professions or in raising our families many find themselves in a quandary to know “what’s next.”

I don’t know if you share my experience, but when I became a Christian, during the Jesus movement in the 1970’s, all I could think about was what God wanted me to do with my life.  I was overcome with a sense that I had a destiny.  I knew there was a plan, but what plan?  In those early years I meditated on the words of people like Albert Schweitzer who said, “I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.”  I also found myself fascinated with verses from the bible that said, “…before you were born I set you apart” and “…we are…created…to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” All of this only confirmed my belief that I had a destiny.  The unanswered question was, “How would I discover it?”