Book excerpt: Everyone wants their life to have meaning and purpose. Everyone wants to feel they are valuable and important. Everyone, deep down, wants to make a positive difference. God put those powerful desires into our genes and those longings in our hearts. At your birth, you were designed and destined to be an instrument of Gods work in the world. As a living gift from God, you were born to make a positive contribution. No matter who you happen to berich or poor, healthy or ill, employed or free, talented or ordinaryyou can make a positive difference. Millions do it every day. You Are Gods Gift to the World shows you how you can make a contribution simply by starting each day with the intention of living in an attitude of gratitudegrateful to God for the gift of life, for being a gift to the world and beloved of God. In this grateful and grace-filled attitudeas you acknowledge that you are Gods giftyou spontaneously discover, again and again, things you can do to make the world a better placein your family, at your workplace, in your neighborhood and beyond. Learn who you are truly called to be and discover ways you can make it happen.