My Name is Erin: One Girl's Mission to Make a Difference
By Erin Davis
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Do you often wonder why? Why am I here? Do I serve a purpose? God says yes. No matter your age or your circumstances, you have a powerful purpose.
Do you have a passion for something? The poor? A country? Justice? Just because you are in school doesn’t mean you can’t do something about it now. Your purpose and your passion intersect—you just have to find where.
Read My Name is Erin: One Girl’s Mission to Make a Difference and:
- Discover and replace your fake purpose with your real purpose.
- Learn how to stop waiting and live as a mission-minded girl NOW.
- Be inspired by stories of girls like you that said “Yes, Lord.”
My Name is Erin: One Girl’s Mission to Make a Difference is one in a series of four books, which can be read in any order. The other titles are:
My Name is Erin: One Girl’s Journey to Discover Truth
My name is Erin: One Girl’s Journey to Discover Who She Is
My Name is Erin: One Girl’s Plan for Radical Faith
Erin Davis
Originally from Edmonton, ERIN DAVIS is a radio broadcaster and was the popular, long-time co-host of 98.1 CHFI’s morning show in Toronto. After Lauren’s death, Erin decided to return to her radio work, staying on for eighteen months. At that point, she chose to retire from daily radio and moved with her husband, Rob Whitehead, to Victoria, BC. Erin appears regularly as a freelance voice artist emcee and a keynote speaker for many organizations and events in Canada and the US.
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My Name is Erin - Erin Davis
Acknowledgments
My name is Erin. I’m a Milk Dud–loving momma who is passionate about a few things, including (in no particular order) my family, the perfect scoop of ice cream, God’s Word, a simple life on my little farm, and teaching young women to choose God’s Truth.
I bet you’re a passionate girl too. Maybe you share my love for farm living and own a horse or two. Maybe you’re a writer like me, who gets jazzed about words, stories, and blog posts. Maybe you are especially passionate about children or there’s a corner of the world that tugs at your heartstrings. Perhaps you are passionate about a certain band or sports team, fashion, or a well-brewed caramel latte. No matter who you are or where you live, I’m sure there are things that cause your pulse to race and your heart to go pitter-patter.
Some of our passions are simply a byproduct of our environment. We love what our parents love; we get jazzed about whatever makes our friends tick. But I have a theory that there are other passions, the ones that ooze from our very core, that have been woven into our hearts by a passionate God with a passionate plan to take the world by storm. Okay, it’s not really my theory. God outlines our mission clearly in His Word. We’ll get to that soon.
How can we know which passions are God-given? What should we do with those passions? Should we bridle them or let them run free, giving them reign over the way we live our lives and the choices we make for the future? Is passion a fire we should seek to control or something we should let consume our entire lives?
These are questions I’ve tried to wrestle to the ground since I was a little girl. (That’s me in the fourth grade.)
Like a Chihuahua on a leash, I’ve bounced back and forth from place to place seeking to find my passion and then wondering what do next. I want to be turned loose with the things that most excite me, but I feel gently pulled back by a God who seems to desire to direct my passions for use in His bigger story.
Speaking of God, why did He make me? What is my purpose on this planet? Do my passions have anything to do with that?
These questions won’t win me any awards for originality. People in every culture in every age have wondered, What am I here for?
As one of billions of people on one planet in one solar system in one of many galaxies, I naturally search for significance. Self-help books tell us to find the answer within ourselves, but those books miss something huge—the God who created us. His Word says that we were created on purpose.
Check out these hilarious titles of real self-help books:
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
Things I’ve Learned from Women Who’ve Dumped Me
Faking It: How to Seem Like a Better Person without Actually Improving Yourself
Isaiah 43:7 talks about His people: Everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.
Read that passage backward. You were made and formed by God. Why? For His glory. Your purpose on this planet is tied to the God who made you. God and your purpose in life cannot be separated.
With that in mind, is God’s heart the best place to take our passions? Is He in charge of deciding our purpose? Will He show us what it looks like to be created for His glory?
I’ve opened the Bible and asked God to answer these questions and to show me my purpose. I’ve squeezed my passions through the grid of God’s Word. The result is a plan to live on mission, finding my purpose in using my God-given passions to do kingdom work.
My name is Erin and this is my story.
Your Mission (Should You Choose to Accept It)
God has a purpose for your life.
That may sound like a cheesy bumper sticker or a mushy Hallmark card, but that single sentence can radically change your life. You are not an accident. Your life is not a series of coincidences strung together between birth and death. Nope. God has a mission for you. And much like the famous spy in Mission Impossible, you have the choice to accept your mission or simply let it self-destruct.
There’s an app for self-destructing messages. Soft-ware makers have developed a free iPhone app that sends messages that delete themselves within seconds. Now you see it. Now you don’t.
From here on out, you’ll read the phrase living on mission
a lot. Sounds like