Mission Statement

Businesses, Churches, and Organizations have mission statements. A statement that portrays their mission. Seems pretty simple one or two paragraphs about the things you want to accomplish. I began thinking about companies who do not have a mission, and what happens to them.  Without a mission companies begin to lose excitement for the work they are doing. They lose sight of goals and they become discouraged. Discouragement leads to feelings of failure, and when a company is failing people simply find another company, a company who has a mission statement, one that is thriving. I came to the realization today that People are the same way.

Without a personal mission statement a person, like a business, will begin to just go around doing whatever they may please. They become a person with no motivation, they lose sight of the person they wanted to be, they feel discouraged and like a failure. I know this because I find myself in a position with no mission statement, and I feel as though I am floating around, and not making a positive impact in the world...and I want to change that.

I have decided each week I am going to set a Personal Mission Statement for myself to live out Monday-Monday. This week is simple I encourage you to join me, make a weekly mission statement and see how your life will change. 

My Mission Statement:
This week I will Not:

• Compare myself to others

This week I Will:

• Practice Patience
• Trust God 

I made it simple this week, something I know I can fulfill. Join me, as I try to change my life, and live it with a mission in my mind.

So that New Years Resolution?

I promised myself that I would write more and more. But I didn't. I often think I should do a #ootd post, or write a funny story of what happened when I was babysitting, or when I helping in kids church. But my problem? I lack motivation to write, and lack of time to write. I love reading blogs, and I love writing. So I should have my own blog right? Sounds good, but finding time to write is the hardest. But I am really going to make an effort this time, and I plan on blogging on Fridays, my day off, and I will go from there. I'm done promising my readers (if I have Any?) , and I am making a promise to myself to write every Friday, and if it turns out I do t like it, we'll then I guess will just delete it all, and I am okay with that.

I like projects.

I like doing new things. Learning how to make something. Taking minimal supplies, putting them together and making something magnificent.

I cook.
I bake.
I sew.

And now,


I Quilt.

I just started this. Seriously just started. Wednesday I thought to myself I should quilt. Thursday I fell in love with a tutorial I found online for a chevron quilt. Friday I went to the fabric store and bought everything I need to make the top of the quilt. And then I started.

Here is to a new project. And another thing I can add to my list of things that I can do, and love to do.

So I Have This Passion.

I attended Passion 2013 and it was the four greatest days of my year! Is it too early to say that? Well it's true! I loved spending time with friends, getting closer to people that I have known for several years. Seeing God work and Move in my life and the lives of those around me.

I expected to leave Passion with a clear plan for my life, but I didn't. In fact I returned more confused than before, but it is a good kind of confusion. I know I need to seek God more, and pursue the passions that he has laid on my heart for the time being. One of the Passions being missions and caring for the overlooked, unloved and Lost. Passion 2013 conference also opened my eyes to a huge problem that is facing the world today SLAVERY. Yes you read that correctly slavery.

Did you know that there are 27 MILLION Slaves in the world today? Yeah neither did I! I knew about Sex trafficking, and I knew it was bad, but I had no clue. But the 27 million slaves are not limited to Sex trafficking, many other types of slavery are still going on around the world. When my eyes were opened to this number of slaves I knew I had to do something. And that something that I can do right now? Raise awareness.

Join me in raising awareness. Raising awareness is simple Go to www.enditmovement.com follow @enditmovement on twitter and Instagram to raise awareness also you can hashtag #enditmovement on both twitter and Instagram. Raising awareness is the first step, it is also the most important step. Please join me so that our generation can do something to change this problem, so that we can make this world a better place. We can all take part in ending modern day slavery. Please join me along with the other 60,000 college students that attended Passion 2013 to raise awareness so we can see a change.

Passion 2013.

Well it's a new year. 2012 was great for me. I graduated High School, started a new internship and have been taking time to find out who I really am. I made new friends, and let some friends go their own way. I embrace 2013, I know that God is going to do great things in my life during this year.

To start off my New Year I am attending a conference Passion 2013! I am currently typing this on my iPad sitting in an uncomfy chair as the other girls on my trip get ready. Today is the first day, and I am ready for all the amazing speakers, worship, and intimate time with God. I am expecting great things to come from this conference, and I am just so excited!

I have never done New Years resolutions, and I honestly don't think I ever will. I just know that great things are going to happen in 2013 and I am so excited! I plan on being a bridesmaid, blogging more, and really finding out what God wants me to do with this life that he has so generously given me.

So 2013 let's get this journey started!

Refresh.

With 2012 coming to a close, I look at my attempt at blogging, and I realize that it was horrible. I look at my blog and feel like didn't try hard enough. I then realized that I didn't make it a priority, simply because I didn't want it to be one.

But in 2013 I am going to try and make it a priority to blog. I might change up what I write on this blog, or I may not. I just know that I want to blog. I want to keep a log of my journey. I want a new start, I want to refresh.

All that being said, I say adios to 2012, and Hello to a new start at blogging in 2013!

ps. I know that we still have 3 weeks in 2012, but let's face it these next 3 weeks are going to be crazy!

Lessons.

In life you learn many lessons. When I was a kid I thought when you got to be a teenager that suddenly Life Lessons would stop, and you would know everything. Boy was I wrong. I find that everyday I am learning more lessons, about myself, my wants, my desires, my passions. I am also learning about the others around me, friends and strangers. Here is one lesson that I have learned lately.

Recently I went on a Road-Trip with my Best Friend, "A" and we had a blast! On our way to Minnesota we drove through the night (her Dad and sister went with us) and enjoyed the night talking about all that had happened between the last time we had seen each other. The purpose of our Road-Trip was to visit a college that we were considering going to. The college visit went well, I even got to hang out with my older-but not oldest brother "B." But on our way back to the MI we decided to make a Real Road-Trip out of it and just stop when we wanted to. We stopped in Milwaukee, WI and saw "The Fonz" statue, after walking around downtown Milwaukee for like 15mins looking for the statue. Then we stopped at a place called "Wisconsin Cheese Castle" and what should have been a 5-15min stop to get some real Wisconsin cheese ended up being an hour of laughing and getting strange looks from the workers. Although originally we were going to be back in the MItten around 9, our detours didn't get us back to home until 12am the next day. But it was worth it. Every second. I learned that sometimes it is okay to not follow a schedule. That you can take the time to walk around downtown looking for a life-size statue of a very short man, And spend more than the normal amount of time in a Cheese Castle. It is okay to act a little younger than your age. It is these moments that we will remember for the rest of our lives. The Life Lesson I learned may sound cliche and I have heard it before but it wasn't until this Road-Trip that it sunk in is that you need to take time and smell the flowers, or in our case the Wisconsin Cheese :)