What makes this website special to me is I've come full circle...but it's from a higher plane. A higher plane of sight that wasn't there before. I feel like my eyes have come open. I see the broadness of who I am and the importance of what I have to offer the world. I didn't understand that 5 years ago when I attempted to launch Purposeful Connections. Heck, I didn't understand it ever.
I knew I could do many things. I knew I found ways to do things in a unique fashion. Nevertheless, somehow...somehow folks would buy into my eccentricity. I certainly gave God the credit, but I didn't sense the grandness.
For instance, doing business as Odyssey Administrative Services, I created newsletters for my Mary Kay Executive Director and members of her down line. I recall what led up to it. My Director shared how she was told she needed an Administrative Assistant and to publish a newsletter. She was an Executive Director after all. I remember her heaving and ho-ing for a minute, having trouble collecting her thoughts. She wasn't that stoked about it at first. But I remember the look in her eyes when she saw her first newsletter. She was so amazed! I remember when I delivered her 100 impressive newsletters to her Mary Kay Sales Meeting. Folks thought she had had them professionally done. I beamed as I watched the response. After that meeting was over, two more Directors approached me about my services. What a grand moment; yet, I didn't comprehend it.
I also convinced a Baptist pastor to allow me to subcontract as pianist for his youth choir. This was unconventional. He hadn't planned to do it any other way but the regular way: hiring me based on what he wanted to pay. I asked him to consider doing it another way. With that, I whipped out my portfolio with the name Odyssey Music Consultants on it. It was slick! I showed him my concept, my services, my fees and the pro's of doing it my way. He was impressed. He said my enthusiasm made him want to give my idea a try. Another grand moment; still, I didn't get it. I didn't get the connection.
These bursts of creativity and innovation and glimmers into my future were just that, bursts and glimmers. I didn't understand what it meant, I just wanted the satisfaction. The satisfaction of doing something I enjoyed, doing it my way and getting paid for it. I didn't see the grandness of it. I didn't see God's favor or the swell of God's creativity, His inventiveness and His execution flowing through me. The prophetic energy of how I could best serve my Purpose. I didn't see it.
When you don't know the value of what you have to offer, you will always be undersold. My ego was so in control that I wanted, no needed, to be accepted and loved. I needed to be validated by my church. As a result, I threw my gifts and talents behind anybody and everybody who had the potential to give me money or validation. Nothing wrong with it if it comes from an authentic place. Mine did not. I accepted the lesser because I didn't understand the Greater.
Until now. I am now standing straight and walking steady. I see how every experience, every burst, glimmer, swell, even what seemed like bad decisions at the time have supported me. My sense of purpose and vision has gone from fragmented to whole, from flighty to grounded, from blurry to clear. I am being shifted from one place to another, most times blind to the game of chess that God is playing until I later marvel at the move He just made.
This website is my announcement to the world that Suzette is back and ready to do it right this time.
