Your Mission.... should you choose to accept it

Several years ago I attended a week long workshop on the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. One of the first exercises they have you do is to write a personal mission statement. I LOVED the idea of a personal mission statement.. but everything I came up with at the time just seemed like bad goat cheese. Nothing really struck a chord with me until just recently-- a culmination of a bunch of books I've been reading and ideas from people I love and religious doctrines that are true beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Rebecca's Mission Statement

~Life is Relationships.~

~Relationships grow out of Agency.~

~Love is a choice.~

And because of your diligence and your faith and your patience with the word in nourishing it, that it may take root in you, behold, by and by ye shall pluck the fruit thereof, which is most precious, which is sweet above all that is sweet, and which is white above all that is white, yea, and pure above all that is pure; and ye shall feast upon this fruit even until ye are filled, that ye hunger not, neither shall ye thirst.

Then, my brethren, ye shall reap the rewards of your faith, and your diligence, and patience, and long-suffering, waiting for the tree to bring forth fruit unto you.

Alma 32: 42-43