This blog was designed to track a journey, a journey to not only become more, but to become me.
My mom's Bible study did a series on finding your mission. Finding what sets your blood boiling and your adrenaline pumping and your heart racing for furthering God's kingdom. But it was more than that, it was a challenge to look to your past and to remember where you came from and realize that good and bad all of that made you who you are today. Who you are today is a unique design for a place in the lives around you that only you can fill. Sounds simple huh? Well if you think that's a simple task you haven't sat down and really thought about it. That's a big question.... what's your mission? What defines you? You as a person, not you as a mom, not you as a wife, or a nurse, or a friend, or a sister, or a ___________, but you.... just you? Having a hard time? So am I..... There are so many labels the world puts on us to define us that mask who we truly are.... and ripping off those labels to get to the core of ourselves is not a destination... it's a journey.
After reading that, how are you feeling? Is there something stirring inside of you? There was/is in me. When that challenge came across my plate it had been so long since I had thought about myself, my passion, my purpose, my mission that I was dumbfounded where to start. If that's how you feel I hope you will stick with me, go on this journey with me, join me in finding the unique place that we each fill that no one else in all eternity will ever be created to fill (cool huh?)
So where to start?
The first thing that I decided to figure out is what gets my blood boiling and my heart racing. I have been blessed to be able to pinpoint that very quickly. Through my opportunity with AdvoCare I have discovered that I LOVE people. I love to help people, to see them accomplish things they never knew were possible. I have a passion for health and improving quality of life. You only get one life so let's make it the best, and when someone has a desire to improve the quality of their life, they make a commitment to lock arms with me on this journey and I get to walk with them and see their eyes as their life changes it's an amazing feeling. I know how my heart jumps with joy when someone learns to love themselves and value themselves again, I can only imagine how big God smiles when he sees us realize how to value our place in His kingdom and live it out.
Knowing what your passionate about is great, but the struggle for me is figuring out how that related with my life and how to make it happen....
I was sitting in a room of 875 women getting fired up and poured into when I heard a woman named Robbie Page speak, and she was speaking about love. The thing I realized that day was I'm really good at loving others, but terrible at loving myself. And without loving and believing in yourself you are limited on what you can do for others..... One of the things she said was "it's so much about you that it's not about you" that struck me because I realized it's not selfish to love yourself and to realize who you are matters, it's actually the beginning of being successful at loving others around you fully and without limits. It's the beginning of your impact and your impression on the world. Loving yourself enough to know your unique qualities, the things that make you, you, is necessary to be able to know where you fit best in the world around you. Loving yourself is hard and feels wrong, but it is a beautiful, wonderful, amazing, (nearly impossible) thing....
and the fire in my belly started to burn......
and I realized that all women need to learn to be inspired and empowered...
and I began to see where I want to be, where I want to go, and how I want to feel....
Stick with me and hold on tight this is going to be a journey you don't want to miss =0)
