Mission Statement
My mission is to reclaim, nurture, and delight the Peter Pan generation through extravagant acts of love.
I have been struggling with why I can't seem to fit into anything that people have assigned to me about who I should be and what I should be doing. The truth is, everyone has a mission in life, and none of those were mine. So I've been doing a lot of soul searching. My bestie lent me a good book called The Path by Laurie Beth Jones. Turns out, I've been trying to fit myself into someone else's shoes for more than a mile: I've been doing it my whole life!
Well, several conversations and guided exercises later, I finally know what I am here for, and why I can't just ... fill in the blank! I was made to reach young people and people who are lost, people who will never truly grow up because something happened in their past that made them equate the notion of maturity with evil. So, I come to give them the chance to learn to grow up without losing the innocence and the love for adventure that they so crave.
I can see it clearly in the people I've been attracted to, the things I have done, and even in some of the most astronomical mistakes that I've made. I see it in the frustrations I have had with good people and organizations that have tried to help, but haven't understood who and what I am. And how could they if I didn't? But if I don't fit with their mission, then I need to move on and embrace my life because I was made to do a specific task. Any place else will breed discontent.
So here I am, reevaluating everything through a new lens. I am happy to finally have arrived at this point in my journey, although there is much ground left to cover in this path of my life. Now I know what to call it, and that helps as I make choices on which road to travel by.
I am here to love and mother lost boys and girls and do it in such a way as to bring them home to God with me. Anything else is someone else's God given destiny, and I don't want to take that away from them. This, however is mine, and I'm embracing it. I know He will perfect that which concerns me and establish the work of my hands.
I have been struggling with why I can't seem to fit into anything that people have assigned to me about who I should be and what I should be doing. The truth is, everyone has a mission in life, and none of those were mine. So I've been doing a lot of soul searching. My bestie lent me a good book called The Path by Laurie Beth Jones. Turns out, I've been trying to fit myself into someone else's shoes for more than a mile: I've been doing it my whole life!
Well, several conversations and guided exercises later, I finally know what I am here for, and why I can't just ... fill in the blank! I was made to reach young people and people who are lost, people who will never truly grow up because something happened in their past that made them equate the notion of maturity with evil. So, I come to give them the chance to learn to grow up without losing the innocence and the love for adventure that they so crave.
I can see it clearly in the people I've been attracted to, the things I have done, and even in some of the most astronomical mistakes that I've made. I see it in the frustrations I have had with good people and organizations that have tried to help, but haven't understood who and what I am. And how could they if I didn't? But if I don't fit with their mission, then I need to move on and embrace my life because I was made to do a specific task. Any place else will breed discontent.
So here I am, reevaluating everything through a new lens. I am happy to finally have arrived at this point in my journey, although there is much ground left to cover in this path of my life. Now I know what to call it, and that helps as I make choices on which road to travel by.
I am here to love and mother lost boys and girls and do it in such a way as to bring them home to God with me. Anything else is someone else's God given destiny, and I don't want to take that away from them. This, however is mine, and I'm embracing it. I know He will perfect that which concerns me and establish the work of my hands.
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