Running Head: SPIRITUAL INFRASTRUCTURE 1
SPIRITUAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Student’s Name
Institution
Date
SPIRITUAL INFRASTRUCTURE 2
ABSTRACT
The purpose of strengthening our nation's spiritual infrastructure it's an intention and a
cognitive sense of one's life. It's the quality of being focused on reaching a set goal that resides in
all types of being above the earth. However, the purpose of human might come differently. The
valence, like the hood of an act of intention, might get capricious as per sense of life resulting.
Whenever absent or low, the presence of an individual comes at risk towards psychopathologies,
and their presence enhances the experience. In reviewing the religious and scientific literature of
nature, function, and age differences, I will show why the infrastructure of life does vary and
don't increase during adult life. In particular, literature gets reviewed on the nature of work.
Work in terms of a workplace and results in the calling of work and life.
Body
The purpose of strengthening spiritual life refers to the quality of being focused and
aiming to achieve at the end. Therefore, from this perspective, the reason for doing so it's in
every particle, cell, mass, and other forms of energy (Keyes, 2011). According to the anthropic
principle, we find that the universe has a role to play. That's to support complicated life. The
bible gives us some encouragement that helps in overcoming the challenges that we meet here on
earth. As to the universe, every person has a great purpose in life, but the ability to decide which
purpose to take depends upon one's decision. For humans, the use of intension changes in the
level of the possible chances of being enacted. And obtain the valence. It depends on whether the
degree gets directed towards achieving personal or social good. Humans can think about
flexibility.
The ability to make decisions and refer not only to the past but the future lives gives the
feeling of the sense of life. This ability to sense in lives as humans requires the ability to answer
SPIRITUAL INFRASTRUCTURE 3
some questions such as whether any person will miss you when you die (YAGHOOBI, 2010).
Most significantly, its one's duties to make some grand decisions that will make people think of
his goodness. Therefore, depending on the ability gave each individual can come up with good
ideas and decided that help in achieving the heart desires. Besides, it would help if you
encouraged other brethren to maintain their decisions.
At first, one can experience some moments of the perplexity of life where every person
rejects you. It passes, and you still have to live as before. When you have the absence of a sense
of purpose of life can cause a miserable living, but you must understand that knowing use does
not give you a hundred percent happy lives (Sartori, 2010). According to religious objectives,
individuals over the world have come to understand and frame death. Therefore, they develop
some anxiety about life after death. An effort and goal of science in the 20th century has to lead
people in understanding the cause of death. And mortality; hence this has led to increased life
expectance by an average of about 30 years. So, science puts aside the death matters but give the
reasons to live a happy life for the improved or added number of years. It means that as a human,
everyone should think of living a meaningful life and decide what kind of life to live. By so
doing, one gets able to answer some question like, "why am I here?", "where do I live?" and
"what to do?"
Moreover, having an increased life expectancy, people have extra life to enjoy, and
therefore they get encouraged with more future hopes. It's because humans fear what they don't
understand, and the future it's inherently uncertain—leading to high pressure on thinking about
one's lifespan and what the future brings. The anxiety about what the future brings has increased
by one standard deviation during the end of the 20th century since the year 1950s. It means that
people living in the 1950s had the same feelings about the future with people living in the 1990s.
SPIRITUAL INFRASTRUCTURE 4
Now, by answering some questions about life may help one accomplish or gain his goals in life.
Consequently, the consciousness towards the purpose in life may improve with increasing
recognition of the reducing moral, ethical, and social ideas of our lives.
Apart from the increased life expectancy, and the growing gross domestic product, child
abuse rates, poverty, and suicide levels have increased. Due to the lack of good infrastructural
growth in a spiritual way, most of the people do not join the civic organizations (Valcanti,
Chaves, Mesquita, Nogueira, 2012). Also, they don’t mind volunteering to health the needy or
the poor within the society they live in that period. It leads to the development of the poorest and
wealthiest families within the same organization. The current status of these actions has led to
having some of the people isolating themselves from the entire community because they have
enough to sustain. They do lack spiritual knowledge of being brother’s keeper. It means that they
should treat the poor with care and love and help them live well. Biblically, it’s of no importance
to look at other humans suffered or lack. So, the change and improvement of spiritual
infrastructure can help change the current situation. Moreover, having a policy that helps make
an individual understand and believe in helping one another plays a significant role in society.
For this behavior, human beings should decide to change their ways and accept to help one
another in all periods.
Finding the purpose of what we look for and why brings us to the next sub-element. Now
the meaning refers to what people search for, and what they desire in their lives. The purpose of
living lies in individuals past and future, and in the excellent work to perform. Whenever people
discover their intention to live, they usually find a sense of aliveness. It enables them to
understand the world that comes in making their lives personal and socially relevant activities.
Above all, this sense always reduces the ambiguity of the future simply because individuals’
SPIRITUAL INFRASTRUCTURE 5
remains constant beliefs to a good future. They believe so because they have high to achieve in
the future. The question of how we look began past with people who died a long time ago.
. Some believed that accomplishment comes up after getting married and make a family. Others
had different perception about accomplishing the future. Currently, the state of why we look
these remains. Many hope for a better future and great lives than the way they live. Therefore,
tending to find some ways to get the future they desire in their hearts. However, the source of
inspiration and direction on purpose derives from the religious and other healthy sources.
On the other hand, the conceptions and use in life it’s both secular and religious. The
religious and spiritual explanations to nature and the use of kind currently have received
increasing attention. According to Rick Warren, the conception of the meaning of life becomes
exemplified under God’s creative act. He believed that God created the human being with the
following purposes; worship, fellowship, discipleship, ministry, and mission. All the objects
show and indicate that God created human nature to encounter His pleasure, look like Christ,
join his family, and tell others about Christ. Therefore, in ultimate concerns psychologically, the
approach to spirituality highlights the nature purpose in life. Emmons requested people to decide
on what they look in life every day and organize these strivings to divisions to achieve, intimate,
have power, and possess the spirit. According to the concept of Emmon concerning spiritual
intelligence, we find that the primary component of the spiritual striving has five personal
capacities.
The individuals can change their immediate material and visible concerns and focus
states of increasing consciousness in relationship to Ultimate. It only occurs if they get connected
to the nature, life, and humanity of God. So, individuals also can pursue some behaviors that get
useful during problem-solving and coping. It may help individuals to have the right decision and
SPIRITUAL INFRASTRUCTURE 6
choose wisely their work, relationships, meaningful and valuable life. In the article humanistic
social scientific tradition, Ryff and Keyes identified and proved some positive health models
theoretically. This model includes the psychological and social dimensions of the purpose of life.
Also, another task in human development it’s finding the purpose. On defining the term maturity,
we find that it focuses on the use of life, sense of direction, and intentionality. Similarly, lifespan
development refers to a variety of changing purposes and goals in life. It means that the person
acting has some goals, intentions, and sense of direction, which contributes to a meaningful life.
Ryff, as a psychologist, views the purpose of being personal, talking about setting goals, and a
sense of direction as the roots to have a definite purpose (Jauhari, Sanjeev, 2010).
Similarly, Keyes as a sociologist has talked about human functioning that shows the truth
that adult lives with and mainly towards others. According to the religious and scientific
personnel, it’s no important for one to have a degree, and he lacks a sense of life. By taking a
view through the lens of human development, you will find that many do this to grow individual
lives. Therefore, individuals should always look at good, useful, and successful objectives
towards their life. Some of the goals mainly help in gaining wisdom as well as knowledge to live
with others.
These activities help in achieving genuine happiness for one to make the right decisions.
It occurs at a general level of the judgment referred to as the theoretical wisdom. The act of
understanding the behavior it’s referred to as practical wisdom. During the development of both
theoretical and practical knowledge, the ability to realize vocation brings a deep sense of
worthiness and value. It significantly contributes to the findings of good health. The term
vocation refers to the mind that one has been called and works in gladness to achieve the world's
hunger. The individuals having authentic purpose possess high levels due to a perceived sense of
SPIRITUAL INFRASTRUCTURE 7
direction in life and social contributions. But the absence or lack of both leads to shameful
useless lives. The strengthening of nations' spiritual infrastructure helps in enabling individuals
to realize the importance of having a sense of direction and understanding of social contribution.
It’s because both reasons depend on each other and to make a good life one should have all. For
example, you find that some individuals have a sense of direction but lack knowledge of social
contribution. It means that the person will always focus on making his life happy alone and not
considering others are feeling. The sense of purpose helps in reflecting the content of
consciousness of an individual during decision making. According to Frankl, the sense of use
refers to ultimately a product of motivation in making good lives since it’s inherently
meaningless.
However, some people look upon a sense of direction and how their sense matters to
society. It’s because humans act to get both emotional and rational reflections. They also have
positive feelings towards some meanings that reduce uncertainty and fear. By doing so, it
reduces the anxiety of having a meaningless life. Social scientific research also gives support on
the view of purpose as one of the features of life. Purpose in life gets to look like traumas, trials,
and tribulations of life.
Does purpose age well it’s the next sub-topic to cover in my discussion. It’s common to
meditate on the purpose of life as the search encourages curiosity, discovery, revelation, and
frequently personal and spiritual development. From this view, most people find their purpose in
life by questioning what they want in life and what life wants from them. It’s less assumed that
the use of life sometimes considers an individual. Of course, not every person searches his
purpose in life; others as well will search and don’t get to know their meaning. Others may find
it and never bother to respond.
SPIRITUAL INFRASTRUCTURE 8
What to do with your life brings us to the next topic of purpose. Many people don’t know what
to do with their lives due to a lack of knowledge. Most individuals don’t differentiate between
the real meaning of life and the selfish desires of the body. Mostly, some think that whenever
they start fulfilling the purpose of their lives, they will get far from their families. Others
believed that through the process of use searching, they would become bankrupt. So, they decide
on saving what they have and continue enriching themselves. Biblically, living a purposeless life,
it’s not important at all. Christians and other religious believers should, therefore, look forward
to achieving the reasons as to why they live. Having a purpose in life makes one happy whenever
he or she gets his goals. Also, to leave life with use, it’s as essential as well. Objectives make
individuals work hard to attain the purposes of living.
On the other hand, research shows one can get to know his purpose in life through
challenges. The psychological use of life decreases proportionally to the discrimination perceives
increase. Also, the subjective meaning of living increases as the level of education of an
individual increase. No differences encountered to the lowest parts of culture. These differences
found between African Americans, Mexico American, and Caucasian Americans. But the effect
of the school on purpose changes depending on the ethnic group. It’s due to the increased
education levels on African Americans than in Caucasians. Biblically, training should always
lead to unity but not separation. Therefore, it could have brought the impact of bringing people
together and making them happy. Hardly, higher education levels should aim at making people
know much about their purpose in life. It should make them work hard in achieving the goal of
living together and helping others in society to find their aspirations in life.
Therefore, the policy should educate individuals about the success of the organization.
No one can make it in being alone, and this implies that all they need it’s to help others on their
SPIRITUAL INFRASTRUCTURE 9
purposes. Through formal training of individuals and oaths that traditionally bonds individuals
by use professionally may have cleared and requires an update to the challenges. These refer to
the challenges of the 20th century. The higher education research institute begun in the 1970s
and has surveyed the upcoming freshman as the source of material for the college students. Past
three decades, three-quarters of the new growing freshman had a look at the meaningful
philosophy of life as a primary target for the college. The education process also helps the
students’ nature their materialistic shape. It does not matter at the school, whether a law school
or the business school, having a success graded one a unique chance in the school.
Some incidents in life make us focus on strengthening the spiritual infrastructure. For
example, the event was public works fail vitally has caused the American people to get closer to
the attention of maintaining infrastructure. Moral support gives us the elements that make us
function successfully as Christians. According to Ephesians, chapter 6', it's when Apostle Paul
describes God's armor. He had carefully studied the war gear worn by the soldiers, and he
compared it with clothing that the Christians put. They use the cloths to struggle with evil and
defeat the challenges of life. By reading the passage, it shows that individuals have to live
according to the ways of God. It's because life requires a spiritual battle. In his words, he
encourages all the people to get loud in the Lord and depend on his powers. The instruction to
put on the full armor of God reveals that he will help in war and protect us as well. Having worn
the full helmet helps us defeat the devil for Christians who don't wrestle against flesh and blood.
On the earth, many go on, and not all we came to experience physically. Their spiritual rulers are
doing their work behind the scenes, and therefore, it's of importance to strengthen the mental
infrastructure. It will enable every individual to overcome the rulers of the darkness.
SPIRITUAL INFRASTRUCTURE 10
Paul acknowledges all the above and tells the Christians that they form Satan's prey and
his powers. Through God's intelligence working, we gain success and live alive with great
purpose. Unless we strengthen our spiritual acts, we will never stand firm and see the days' work
and move to the next day. In the current state, it's straightforward for one to forget about reality
and think that things must move on smoothly. But the truth of life it's that we live for struggle
life, and Satan has supernatural powers to compete with us as Christians. But God gives every
individual a spiritual armor to fight for himself.
Paul talks about having our feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of
peace. This verse shows the ways every individual should remain ready for moving forward in
faith. God's massage gives the order for the nations. It motivates Christians to keep on running. It
provides peace of mind and courage; everyone needs to overcome the challenges of life. It also
gives us peace with God, coming to understand his plans and purpose for everybody. Some
people in the current state pass through hardship and try to lose hope in life. But whenever the
gospel spread to them, they get encouraged (Hosseini, lias, Krauss, Aishah, 2010). It's because
the peace of Lord comes upon us even when we pass by the darkness of the valley of death. This
knowledge about God's kingdom makes Christian transform and move on their daily life quickly.
The gospel plays a significant role in life for making us feel motivated by the doings of God in
our lives.
The educational process also helps in making the students learn to understand their
purpose, values, and goals to pursue. For example, a person can join the school of law and
decline in student’s community service values and end up leaving the course. He may move and
pursue goals out of interest and enjoy the increasing amount of appreciating activities. By doing
so, he may impress other students and please them to pursuing their set goals. Also, due to the
SPIRITUAL INFRASTRUCTURE 11
challenges of life, many people may end up losing their interest in it, but once God speaks to
them, life becomes enjoyable. Therefore, Christians need to work hard to spread the good news.
It indeed helps in making people enjoy the experience.
Moreover, they should form a policy that enables individuals to understand God’s doing
very well and allow them to maximize their trust in God. Christians always have strong faith that
everything it’s possible through Christ, who strengthens them. So, in the same ways, he will
increase the spiritual infrastructure of the nation if all turn to his ideas.
Another element that helps in strengthening the spiritual infrastructure of our nation it’s
the show of love. The word describes God as love. In the beginning, he showed his devotion to
his people. In the same case, he ordered that we should love one another. For the development of
the nation, we should portray love among ourselves. The current state of the country shows
decrement of the love that God gave unto us. Many people love themselves and betray others for
their benefit. Whenever there’s love, the presence of God reigns, and the development takes
place. So, we should preach for love to enter in the nation for it to grow. Also, love brings
happiness to the people of God.
Strengthening the nation’s spiritual infrastructure enables one to understand the meaning
of work. Some people define work or see work as getting a job and the aim of getting paid. Due
to the desire of oneself, they will change places of work or the work they do to have a better
payment. It’s because work refers to the financial security to carry avenues away from work for
fulfillment. The other individual view works a career that derives satisfaction from the need of
the professional job progress. In other words, they do it to meet their material needs, to increase
payment, leisure, and the name that comes with the improvement of a level. These job titles
improve power, self-esteem, and high social standing in society. People who see work as a career
SPIRITUAL INFRASTRUCTURE 12
should now that this can cause national insecurity. It’s because many people need to have the
same position in the leadership in the work area. Biblically, it’s not good for people to fight over
the direction since God provides every individual with a different tool. Some have leadership
power, while others do not have them. The spiritual infrastructure shows us how God differently
bless his people (Benson, Scales, Syvertsen, Roehlkepartain, 2012).
On the other hand, others perform work as a calling. Calling in tradition refers to the act
of being called by God to perform a morally and socially significant action. Currently, people
have neglected the meaning and diverted it to a feel on what an individual’s life expects from
him. They only feel they called to live a spiritual experience. In the Davidson study, they support
their words and approach to work as a calling. The meaning of calling refers to the act of being
loved and making the world a better place for living. So, every person should be willing to
perform any task that improves his living standards. Even the bible does not allow people to stay
idle, and it gives some conditions. It indicates that God blesses the work of private hands. It also
says that every person shall eat after performing a particular task.
Moreover, every person harvests that he plans, and therefore it’s essential to strengthen
the nation’s spiritual infrastructure. The reason for learning this it’s to encourage people to
perform their works to their best and not aim at the personal benefit. Through the work of the
individual, the national economy of the whole nation will increase (Bryndin, Bryndina, 2017).
And as well as the living standards will rise up. Also, peace and harmony start in the country
since every person works for the government but not personal benefits. Through work, job
opportunities get created for all the people. The individual will understand that its persons will
get permanently employed or not.
SPIRITUAL INFRASTRUCTURE 13
In life, there different integrity of for-profitt; most organizations depend on the fidelity of
fiduciary. Macpherson believed in democratic capitalization becoming represented by the
possessive individualism. He also thought that it could get the singular purpose of storing capital
through all the means possible and within the minimal concern about the occupation. They also
had an impact on the fiduciary system and the organization's integrity.
The reason as to why some of the organizations move in the possessive individualism
direction includes the following. The organization may trust the fiduciary structures, and the
processes get weakened, long term future confidence and viability of the political process gets
shaken. Also, the leaders and regulators in maintaining the structure for both personal and public
integrity that serve well dissolving can cause an organization to focus its direction on other
architectures. Under this situation, we consider the critical element of authentic purpose. Only
employees who view work as a calling can withstand and report with the most reliable and
paying relation to work.
They may spend more time in this situation, enjoying and getting certification from the
job. However, the ethical ethos of organizations it's at the center. It's due to many companies
having more workers perceive their working stations as an ethical report at more prominent
resolution standards, positively working and supervision control (Hegetschweiler, Vries,
Arnberger, Bell, Brennan, Siter, Hunziker, 2017). They're also better in dispute handling and
power to enhance production. About the current situation of the nation, you find that many
people avoid working. Many of them need more opportunities, others need promotions, and
others need supervision. When the spiritual infrastructure it's made, all the people will get
encouraged to work together even under no supervision. Also, the managers will not value their
levels of work and therefore coming to work with other individuals. It will enable a great
SPIRITUAL INFRASTRUCTURE 14
relationship in the work area and may directly lead to improved productivity of the organization.
Hence, the richness of the nation goes high, and the economy also improves.
George Santayana said that life becomes worth living and most necessary assumptions
made, and if not assumed, the conclusions become almost impossible. Also, John D and
Catherine T supported the research. Moreover, they wish to appreciate the support from
membership from the project that interdisciplinary shows happiness. Such projects include
scientific, theological, and some perspectives towards loving God, neighbor, and oneself
developed by the center of the study of the law and religion. The individual love creates the
feeling of loving other people who live with you. These may lead to improved relationships
between oneself and others in the nation. Therefore, the spiritual infrastructure strengthening
may lead to useful perspectives of living with one another for better environments (Puchalski,
Vitillo, Hull, Reller, 2014). Also, when you love your neighbor, he will love you back and
encourages teamwork in the nation; hence high living standards may result. Above all, the love
for God may proportionally leady to His blessing into the land. Moreover, they bring peace to his
people.
SPIRITUAL INFRASTRUCTURE 15
Reference
Benson, P. L., Scales, P. C., Syvertsen, A. K., & Roehlkepartain, E. C. (2012). Is youth spiritual
development a universal developmental process? An international exploration. The
Journal of Positive Psychology, 7(6), 453-470.
Bryndin, E. G., & Bryndina, I. E. (2017). Formation of public health care on basis of healthy
lifestyle. International Journal of Psychological and Brain Sciences, 2(3), 63-68.
Hegetschweiler, K. T., de Vries, S., Arnberger, A., Bell, S., Brennan, M., Siter, N., ... &
Hunziker, M. (2017). Linking demand and supply factors in identifying cultural
ecosystem services of urban green infrastructures: A review of European studies. Urban
Forestry & Urban Greening, 21, 48-59.
Hosseini, M., Elias, H., Krauss, S. E., & Aishah, S. (2010). A review study on spiritual
intelligence, adolescence and spiritual intelligence, factors that may contribute to
individual differences in spiritual intelligence and the related theories. Journal of social
sciences, 6(3), 429-438.
Jauhari, V., & Sanjeev, G. M. (2010). Managing customer experience for spiritual and cultural
tourism: an overview. Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes.
Keyes, C. L. (2011). Authentic purpose: The spiritual infrastructure of life. Journal of
management, spirituality & religion, 8(4), 281-297.
SPIRITUAL INFRASTRUCTURE 16
Puchalski, C. M., Vitillo, R., Hull, S. K., & Reller, N. (2014). Improving the spiritual dimension
of whole person care: reaching national and international consensus. Journal of Palliative
Medicine, 17(6), 642-656.
Sartori, P. (2010). Spirituality 1: Should spiritual and religious beliefs be part of patient
care?. Nursing times, 106(28), 14-17.
Valcanti, C. C., Chaves, C. E., Mesquita, A. C., & Nogueira, D. A. (2012). Religious/spiritual
coping in people with chronic kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis. Revista da
Escola de Enfermagem da USP, 46(4), 838-845.
YAGHOOBI, A. (2010). The study of relation between spiritual intelligence and rate of
happiness in booali university students.
