Over the past couple of years I’ve dug a bit deeper into that feeling of insecurity and found a place where the beauty of that insecurity and my true purpose collide. I’m not one who subscribes to the idea that each of us has one purpose in life. My mission stays the same but my purpose changes in each and every season—always lining up of course with my mission: to bring the same freedom that knowing God has given me, to others. It’s pretty simple. But somehow something so simple, when tied in with life’s ups and downs, can become ever-so-complicated. It’s one of life’s greatest mysteries, I think.
Even with all those sometimes cloudy thoughts swirling around in my head I’ve miraculously come to the conclusion that I don’t necessarily need the title of designer to run full-speed ahead in what I have I have been created to do.
This year I am honing in a bit more on sharing the things I love and the term “designer” just seems to box me in a bit more. Aside from the fact that I am an Enneagram 7 and just refuse to be anything but a free spirit, I don’t like the idea of limiting myself to being a designer. (Notice I didn’t say JUST a designer. Mostly ‘cause anyone who holds that title is so much more than that anyhow. But, we know that. )
I express that I am not a designer mostly because what I do around here encompasses so much more than home design. Would you agree? I also, quite often, need to remind myself that I am not. It frees me up to not have the pressure of being something I’m really not meant to be in the first place.
I talked a bit about this on Instagram last week but it is not lost on me that I hold a unique space here on the Internet as a woman of color who believes in Jesus, speaks confidently about her faith while also sharing my love for home and design, but also engages in meaningful conversations that hopefully stir many of you to action and affect change in your hearts and minds. It’s a lot sometimes, even for me, to grasp. But, I keep going because, to be honest, what’s the alternative?
There is something that burns deep inside me to share with each of you the beauty that home can bring and that it’s so much more than just pretty things. I desire more than ever to express to the world that our homes are a representation of more than just who we are but of WHOSE we are. It’s a concept that even for me at times is incomprehensible which, in turn, compels me to lean in even more to this conversation.
I know the natural question here is now, “Well, what exactly are you, Kennesha? What DO you do?”
Well, I am an encourager. A storyteller. A life-breather. A creative. An influencer. A stylist. A gatherer. But, most of all? I am a woman who loves connecting with the hearts of others through home. I am a supporter of just about anything that involves the idea of bringing people together in a space for the purpose of not only creating community but opening up our hearts and mind to thoughts, ideas and ways of living that some of us may have never considered or though of without the proper prompts.
