"She’s the Cheese!"
The Story Behind the Grant
This is hard to write. For a couple of reasons, actually.
First, I can’t tell the whole story because the most central part is still a surprise for the future. I’m not ready to unveil that secret "beauty" yet. You know how we women have our "secret beauty" that we keep hidden until we’re ready to step forward with it? Well, this grant is part of mine, and I can’t tell the whole story yet.
Like, for instance, what the heck does "She’s the Cheese!" mean?
My secret, for now 
. Because it’s not time yet.
The second reason this is hard to write is. . . that it requires sharing my "secret beauty"!
(If you’ve ever read John Eldredge’s Waking the Dead, then you’ll recognize the thought that it’s easier to share your failings than it is to share your "glory". Your secret beauty, or your glory, is who you truly are — or are meant to be. Your failings are not. So it hurts more for others to misunderstand or reject your “glory” than your failure.)
It’s almost painful to go visit that place in your heart where your secret dreams and desires are birthed, to feel it deeply, so you can try to express it clearly.
Ok, I give up — there just isn’t time to dig that deep right now. This page is nearly the last one I have to get up before I can take the site live tomorrow. I’m getting messaged by a team member and it’s time to kiss the kids goodnight.
Let’s just say that this site — and this grant — is the first major, public step I’ve taken toward the mission I set out on more than four years ago when I was "called" to start my own business and go into internet marketing.
And that mission is to inspire and empower women to become all they were created to be, through having their own business and pursuing their "family mission". I’ll talk more about that later.
Part of my mission is to have the funds generated from empowering women in the "developed" world in their business and family mission, go toward supporting women in the “developing” world to do the same thing, through micro loans.
But women in the developing world are not the only ones who need (or want) help. There’s a radical difference of degree in true need between here and the developing world — but you wouldn’t know it by the chest-squeezing stress that many of have experienced just trying to make ends meet.
Even a small grant — nourishing a seed of purpose, nurtured by encouragement and coaching — can make a WORLD of difference for one woman and her family.
So, here’s to planting seeds of Hope, that buds in Vision, and blooms in Action.
Blessings ~
Sarah
