As I sit and reflect today, on the life of my friend and mentee Lisa Miller-Baldwin, my heart is heavy, but I am grateful for the opportunities to tell of the impact of her life in the earth. Too often we wait for moments like this to ponder what we should have done or said sooner. When we lose someone close or dear, it causes us to reflect on the person and their impact, but even greater on our own lives. Lisa was many things to many people, her reach touched people's lives, and her story will forever change how we address real life issues like homelessness, domestic violence, parenting, early childhood education and advocacy. Her approach was hands-on and she put forth maximized efforts for every work she was connected with. Her work went beyond meeting her own needs, because often she sacrificed her own needs for the work she committed to.
She was daughter of God, first and foremost she loved God, and he was at the center of everything she did. She was a mother, grandmother, sister-friend, business entrepreneur, visionary, passion-filled lover of the most high God, a worshipper who touched heaven with her voice. She was my friend.
I can remember our mentee sessions together, as she shared her power-packed vision, and well thought out plans. She inspired me to be better and to reach higher. Our sessions often left me convicted, because I would thinks that was great advice, but when are you going to begin your work. She not only had the vision, but she carried momentum that was fierce enough to blaze a trail behind her to draw people to the work. The work she wrought in me, is what causes me to write today. Our work and stories can only be made evident and clear when we tell them. When we stop our excuses and get to the work.
So the questions remain for me, the momentum has been set, so who will carry the work forward. The board members of Wonderfully Made Foundation have the task to figure out how to make the legacy come alive and continue to ignite. The many business entities that Lisa met with to solicit on-going support for the work, have the opportunity to grant her request by creating philanthropic seeds that honor her work.
Each of us reading this post, have a part in this work. What's your part? Begin it today. If not, now, when? If not here, where? Make a choice to support the continue work and effort by honoring the work
- Support the family during this time of remembrance as they prepare for the celebration of a life lived for God. Go to: http://www.gofundme.com/fzc0i0
- Annual donation to the work
- Wonderfully Made Foundation
- Entrepreneur of Faith
- Homeless Homes
- Create homes for the families currently housed
- Provide education and resource building for families to maintain their homes
- Resources for the families well-being
- Carry the vision of Lisa Miller Baldwin forward in your work
- Bring awareness to the issue of Domestic Violence
- Bring awareness to the issue of Homelessness
- Live a life for Christ on Purpose, Out loud for the entire world to see
- Stop making excuses and start today!
