Mission Is...

Came across this while taking a seminar in Bonn, Germany.  I think this speaks to everyone.

Mission means setting out

Taking the road

Leaving everything behind

To come out of one's shell

To smash the crust of egoism

Which locks our self in our own Ego.

Mission means putting an end

To thinking oneself to be the pivot

Around everything turns

As if we were the very center

Of the universe and of life.

Mission means not limiting our self

To the problems of the tiny sphere

To which we belong.

The people are much greater.

Mission means always setting out

But not counting the miles.

Mission means above all else

Being available to others

Brothers and sisters

Seeking them out

And meeting them.

And if necessary

To cross seas and fly through the air

To find them and to love them,

Mission

is setting out

To go the farthest ends of the Earth.

Don Helder Camara

1909-1999