Many organizations have a mission statement. How about individuals? Shouldn't we have one too? I was challenged to come up with one by a professor recently. She said, your mission statement has to be something so important and relevant to you that when you are held at a gun point, you can still remember it and it still applies. That's a good starting point. I asked myself, if someone held me at a gun point, what would I think about?
While it's not too difficult to come up with a mission statement. The most difficult part is to live one's live, day in and day out towards fulfilling that mission statement. Other people put demands on you and your time until, what's the most important get to be pushed aside. Sometimes, people's expectation and your own desire to do the "expected" things gets in the way.
If I were held at a gun point and facing imminent death, what will I regret most? While I will delight in leaving this world to be with the Lord sooner than expected, without a second thought, I will regret missing the opportunity to continue to guide my children into adulthood, and to grow old together with my husband. It may sound like a cliche, but these three people are the ones God entrusted me with. I believe someday, when I stand in the presence of God, I will be asked to account for what I did with them. Therefore, when and only when I have done right by them, that I, with good conscience, can give my time and energy to other noble activities like serving the church community or other civil organization like AWARE.
The question I ask every day now is, how does what I am doing today fit in with my personal mission. Will choosing to do something means I am pushing aside my life's mission? Recently, on Good Friday, I filled out a commitment card in this manner: I commit myself to stay true to my life mission which are: to bring up Godly children, to be a good help-mate, and to build a strong family. To my friend Peggy, this is why I cannot support you in AWARE.
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