WHOOOSH! Did you see it? Another year just flew by! It has been an exciting year filled with adventures, challenges, laughter, and tears. We are living a charmed and blessed life, able to experience more of God’s creation than I ever thought I would see.
Soon after moving into our new Italian home, I saw a scene that impacted me. We live next door to a nursing home and I saw an elderly woman sitting alone on a bench. Something so simple had a profound effect on me. The clearest view to the nursing home is through the playroom window. Here I was chasing my small children around, surrounded by chaos, and there she was, sitting alone on a bench with only the hot summer air keeping her company.
What kind of woman was she? Did she have a family? Was she once surrounded by children or chaos? Was she happy? Not only with the everyday life she lives today, but was she happy with the life she had lived? What would she change? What were her regrets? What do others think of her?
What do I want my life to look like? What do I want my family and friends to think of me? If there comes a day where I’m sitting alone on a bench, how will I reflect on my life?
I stopped for a few minutes and thought about the answers to those questions. I felt it was important to have a guide, something to measure my decisions and my overall life up against. Out of this was born my Personal Mission Statement. I’m sure over time it will change as I do, but this is where I start.
~To create a Godly, loving, inviting, comfortable, organized, and exciting home; a sanctuary from the world.
~To always challenge myself through creating, learning, and loving.
~To live my life by words and example of Christ living through me, a strong work ethic, love, strength, compassion, kindness, and gentleness.
~To have passion during every season of life and to leave each place a little better than I found it.
As this New Year begins, I’m excited to experience what it has to hold. I’m excited to continue my Traveling White Picket Fence journey, and to grow as a wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend! Happy New Year!
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