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You never know who’s gonna pop a pearl of wisdom on you! One of the lessons I learned in one of my careers\u2014the one as a producer and writer of television\u2014was given to me by a most unlikely and somewhat disrespected source. Many times people we end up not liking very much actually have a purpose and a lesson for us in our life. This lesson came from a television producer, a big fish in a little pond. He believed at the time he was a big fish and so did I. I have since come to see maybe the reason he seemed to be a big fish was that his pond was really a puddle and there he was flopping around creating what seemed to be big splashes. How did I know he actually presented me with a lesson for my life, a piece to my puzzle, a Dot for my pertinent pocket? (Post 2) Because here it is, decades later, retained!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So Producer Fish told me in one of his pontificating moments that everything in a show has to have a Raisin Debt. (That\u2019s what I heard: Raisin Debt.) Well, I wanted Producer Fish to think I was the bright and knowing young writer that I was trying to pass myself off to be and that I could save his show…but \u2018Raisin Debt?\u2019 Yish, my little memory banks were just racing index after index, reference after reference, back even into the offline archives to find some semblance of a meaning or obscure reference for \u2018Raisin Debt.\u2019 A reference to recent grape crop failures? Singing California cereals? Gross National Product Indices, commodities? It\u2019s a wonder my eyes weren\u2019t fairly spinning in my head like a slot machine looking for three cherries…or in this case, raisins…raisins in debt. Alas I was never able to find the reference or manage a look of understanding necessary to let Producer Fish know I knew what the hell he was talking about, and I was forced to ask him, \u201cRaisin Debt?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYes.\u201d He smiled at his opportunity to pontificate, \u201cIt\u2019s French. Raison d\u2019etre, <\/em>a \u2018reason to be.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazingly, out of the mouths of fish sometimes plops a pearl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He, of course, was talking in his limited puddle concept of writing a television show. He felt everything in the show had to have a Reason to Be. But when you hear a Universal Truth, well, I immediately clicked on a bigger picture concept of a Reason to Be!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything has a raison d\u2019etre (Raisin Debt)…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…a Reason to Be.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Applying Big Picture strokes to it: Yes, we all carry in our souls a Raisin Debt, a reason to be.  <\/em>A reason why we Are. A reason why we Are Here. A reason why this soul chose this body and those parents and this life and all those aggravating circumstances, that trait, those tendencies, that skill, that fallibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, we don\u2019t live our lives understanding we have a Reason for our existence, nor work to find what our Reason to Be is. A reason why we are here. A reason we were born. Something in this lifetime to accomplish, to learn, to teach, to contribute, to save, to live through, to experience. The good, the bad, the boring; the indifferent, the ugly. Living our life with the precept that Everything has a Reason to Be in our life. Once you realize there\u2019s a Purpose in there somewhere, it sheds light on the Bigger Picture. The realization that there is a reason for it all <\/em>becomes the seed bed for acceptance and learning and growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe the reason we don\u2019t live our lives understanding that there is a raison d\u2019etre for our life is because it can be a long-term, open-ended project that stretches through our whole life long\u2014a life\u2019s work. And we\u2019ve all been refocused on 10-second soundbites, 20-minute half-hours, a Cliff Notes\u2019 version of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s sometimes hard, focused, and, lots of times, thwarted work. We run the risk that we may never finally dot the I\u2019s, cross the T\u2019s and put a name on our Reason to Be. It may be like the daily picture puzzles I work. They offer no picture to go by. Instead, you put the puzzle together by observation and instinct. If you actually look for the picture to go by, it says, \u201cPicture will be revealed after you complete the Puzzle.\u201d Maybe we only discover our raison d\u2019etre after we exit this life. Maybe that\u2019s why so few people live their life with the purpose of finding out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But If One Were Looking for a Raisin Debt, Where Would One Start?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, it takes seeing every other human as Soul. Regardless of any external distinguishing marks, colors, creeds, religions, or orientations. Realizing that each and every body is wholly and holy encasing a glowing ember of the Eternal\u2014no matter what name you call It\u2014and especially no matter what flotsam and jetsam and BS they have piled on top of that ember! It still burns. You now open your vistas to seeing connection to all things, all people. Everybody\u2019s. Got. A. Soul. It\u2019s the internal, Eternal Guidance System we were given to lead us. Tap into it. You\u2019ll feel and find your Raison d\u2019etre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secondly, it takes a kind of faith, maybe even a strong kind of faith, to live your life with the precept that Everything has a Reason to Be in your life.  Yes, the tormenting, traumatic, and tragic. Accepting that \u201cEverything happens for a reason,\u201d opens the door to letting that Eternal ember lead. Maybe it\u2019s just the people you encounter\u2014to learn from or survive from, or to reconnect like you\u2019ve known each other for-ever. There have been Dots dropped through the ages: Behind every cloud is a silver lining.<\/em> It\u2019s why my Family and Children\u2019s Services counsellor had me list everything \u2018bad\u2019 that happened and hurt, then try to find something good<\/em> that came from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It takes focus and intent: You want to find the Reason to Be for your life. Seek and ye shall find, sayeth the Bible. See with eyes that truly see, listen with ears that truly hear, and live with a heart that seeks to understand. See people and circumstances as pieces of the puzzle to be put together to reveal the answer, the Big Picture of why you Are. See how many answers you come up with to \u201cwhy is this happening.\u201d What am I getting out of the circumstances of my life? Squeeze the juice right out of every raw circumstance!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everybody\u2019s got a Raisin Debt! Everybody\u2019s got a Reason to Be in this life. If you ever wondered why the Home Page for Mesmarriah Miracle is Raison d\u2019etre<\/em>, this is the reason. Mesmarriah Miracle is just looking to find a Reason to Be for Life\u2014with a Capital L. Defining It. Naming It. Living It.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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