What’s Your Why? (11/06/2026)
Last night I was watching a tv program. When it broke for commercials, I do what I always do, I got up to do something to stay awake. I was making coffee in the kitchen when in the background I heard the end of the commercial. It was a question: What’s your why? I can’t tell you what the commercial was about, but I can’t set down that question.
What’s my why? Why do I do what I do? Why do I do the good? Why do I do the not so good? What is my “why” in life? What are my guiding principles? Would anyone observing me without really knowing me be able to discern my “why” from my words and actions?
This morning as I sat at my computer that was still running through my mind. And as I did with a child who wouldn’t quit asking, I gave in. Okay, I stated to the air, “What is my why?” I know what I want it to be. I want it to be what I’ve professed it to be since Catechism class in the 1st grade: to know, to love, and to serve the LORD. But while that sounds great, it also sounds superficial. So, I dug deeper. And then it came: “to love well always.”
That is my “why.” As daughter, mother, wife, friend, even stranger, my motivation is love. I’ve experienced the love of the LORD; I know how powerful love is, and I want to be an agent of it in this world. As I sat, I realized that I don’t always succeed, but I also acknowledged that part of the love of the LORD I cherish is its mercy, flowing into my life even when I don’t deserve it but so desperately need it.
As I begin this morning, this day, I beg the LORD to help me to love well always. I pray for the Spirit’s guidance and grace to follow in the footsteps of my Savior, Jesus Christ, who loved wholly even on the cross. I pray for mercy for those times when I have failed to be a loving person and for fortitude to stay the course.
What is your why?
Until tomorrow, let us all love well.
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