Greetings on this Christmas Eve, Wednesday, December the 24th, 2025.

Welcome to Dennison Forum's Daily Article podcast.

I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article authored by our co-founder, Dr. Jim Denison.

Will you observe Christmas tomorrow?

If so, according to a new Gallup survey, you're in the majority.

88% of Americans will join you. Will you attend church services today or tomorrow?

If so, you're in the minority. Only 47% of Americans will join you down from 64% in 2010.

Now consider two other recent Gallup headlines.

U.S. mental health ratings continue to worsen and Americans end year in gloomy mood.

I believe the declining church attendance is related to declining well-being in a way that might surprise you, but will, I hope, greatly encourage you as well.

A recent article by clinical psychology professor Ross White advises, your purpose isn't something to find, it's something you form, end quote.

He reports that online searches for the phrase,

Find Your Purpose, have risen by more than 3,000% in the past three decades.

However, he encourages his clients to take a different path.

In his view, our life purpose works with what and who we already are

and evolves over time while serving its own

ends. The goal is to form a direction that, quote, brings meaning and vitality to our lives.

I'm reminded of the testimony of Albert Camus, who called himself an absurdist and viewed the

universe as meaningless, quoting Camus,

in the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

His word stir something in me. The idea that I can form my own purpose and thus bring meaning

and vitality to my life is viscerally attractive.

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