Have you ever been wildly passionate about something? Anything? If you have you now that there's nothing quite like it. You want to learn everything you can. You want to tell anybody who will listen about this thing that you feel so fired about about, and the feeling is quite majestic. That's how I feel about this business and ministry. What I've learned at now 30 years old is that passion burns out. The love is still there, and your brain/mind remembers what that fiery passion felt like, but the body and physicality of it all is exhausted. This is not my first time launching an online boutique. Fashion and clothes has been a love of mine all my life. Literally the entirety of my life. The only issue is that I got burnt out, discouraged, and life ate me alive honey. Then I quit. Then failure ate me alive. for years and years and years.What I understand now is when God gives you something it's like a seed. (Shout out to my Cousin/Bestie Gisele who is the Queen of seed analogies 😂) A seed is something you water, and tend to because you already know to anticipate what it will be. You know your garden or tree/fruit won't show up the next day but we take care of that seed and make sure its in the right position to get enough sunlight and water to grow into what it will eventually be. You can under or over water it, and you can allow bugs/pests to destroy it if you let them. The same goes for assignments and passions that God gives us. We live in a generation where numbers mean more than the mission and that's not right. We're missing the goal. If ONE person is blessed by this ministry then I've already succeeded and heaven is rejoicing. I don't care what that looks like to society or even to myself. Sometimes you have to sit your own subconscious down and tell it to SHUT UP. I can be so mean to myself. We always claim that it's the enemy bringing us down when a alot of the times we are our biggest enemy. NO MORE! Tell yourself to shut uuuup! Quiet your mind and out on that worship/motivational music and stay on track.
God gave me this business/ministry and told me he created a lane for me. My spirit leaped yall! He knew exactly what that would mean to me. Of course I had thoughts and reason to be hesitant. I was like but God? This market is oversaturated. Do we really need ANOTHER boutique? A ministry for women and girls and what else? I had questions lathered in my own insecurity and self doubt. God just sat back all calm and cool like he is and repeated "I created a lane just for you." He waited for me to be done and to finally hear him, and I really and truly heard him the second time. I thought to myself.. Oh, this is MY lane. This is MY calling. This is MY purpose, and it's time to walk into it with POISE.
I encourage you to sit with God and allow him to reveal your purpose to you if he hasnt already. A lot of us already know what we're supposed to do but we lolligag and sit on it waiting for the perfect time or for it feel right. When God gives you something you run! Sprint! I'm not saying there won't be adversity and speed bumps because there very much may be, but you experience them differently when God is with you rather than when you take the world on for yourself. Get those seeds ready to be planted y'all! Many of you have ministries and businesses in you.
