Company Update: Faith of a Mustard Seed Building Plans.
When you are busy making plans, but God calls you to pursue your higher purpose.
As a child, I attended Bible school with my sisters, but I would not say we lived in a religious home. Not implying we did not believe in God, but we did not go to church every Sunday either. Sharing my enlightened experience can be shocking and scary for some, especially those closest to me.
I always had a close personal relationship with God but struggled with some aspects of participating in standardized religion.
It gave me confused messages. Sometimes it would appear to set expectations and shame individuals, pushing people away from their divine Creator and making them feel unworthy of saving or love in their times of need.
God is Love and light above all else. It is our job to bring others closer to the light.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
1 John 4:16
Busy making Plans
I have been working to build DankLocal and Housewives Grow for over two years. It has come with its fair share of setbacks, accomplishments, and personal growth.
You can learn more about our journey to founding DankLocal here if you missed it. For this post, I would like to share My Story update and mission to expand my goals based on a higher calling.
Last March, we were working on a 4/20 project for DankLocal. While gathering music, materials, and other artists who I felt impacted the cannabis industry. I suddenly felt this divine message coming from a higher power, and no, it was not the plant for the funny guys.
I distinctly remember sitting on my patio and praying to God, asking if he was trying to send me a message. As I mentioned, this is not a common practice, but the feeling was so strong.
His response was an overwhelming “Yes”.
What happened next was an experience I could never have prepared for or dreamed of, and complicated to describe in words. Incredibly, I was able to document some of this awakening experience and will share more one day when I feel ready.
After almost four months of self-reflection, I am ready to share this update with you. I believe it is necessary to understand my current perspectives.
An Enlightened Message for a Higher Purpose
This divine message shared bad and good truths about our world and myself. It was an adventure of emotions, love, happiness, light, guilt, shame, and sadness that continued for weeks, and it honestly took me some time to ground myself.
While technology is inherently good, we have primarily used it for monetary gain, to standardize rather than enhance creativity, and to take us away from nature, each other, and God. ONE LOVE.
Much of what we consume in our bodies has synthetic ingredients added to it, our water, food, and medicine.
One reason we became so passionate about the cannabis industry and founded DankLocal was the potential of herbalism, yet we favor chemicals out of corporate gains and medicinal control. New laws look promising and give some opportunity, but we still have so far to go.
The system that claims to protect us is broken and corrupt. Money is the “root of all evil” and that it has created.
While this was all part of my spiritual message in great depth, we already know these things. We know these things and get distracted by life and the media/world around us. Making us all afraid to speak out or easily buy into the idea we are so small we can’t change the world alone.
Almost unreal, I know!
I could write a book about the experience, and maybe someday I will, but only God knows. 😉
This story is less about my personal awakening and more about sharing God’s word and pursuing the mission He sent for me. Having sat with it for several months, seeing the world happening around us, it feels like now is the time to act.
A Divine Mission
Along with sharing the emotions and enlightenment of the world around me, He was calling me to create, to be part of a new way. To help guide people, families, and communities by providing new options for living, health, education, and well-being.
Through our environment, we become conditioned to think there is no other option, but like founding a company, we can be the founders of a new way for the community. Our ancestors chose to make a change and show others it was possible, and we can still be pioneers, especially as entrepreneurs.
We keep looking for a system that breaks us to fix problems they created, but they are the problem. Solutions are needed, and WE THE PEOPLE, can be the leaders of our future solutions.
“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.” — Greek Proverb
His divine calling instructed me to create a sustainable living community built on simple principles of freedom, spirituality, fresh water, clean food, herbal medicine, and love. A Life/Work balance community, an all-in-one technology community experience, and retreat designed to spiritually heal, nurture, and enrich new simple living styles.
The closest historical example I can provide would be Walt Disney’s, Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (E.P.C.O.T) on a smaller village scale and before it was a theme park. Something tells me I’m not the first person He has called to this mission.
A born believer, I know God is mighty. I have witnessed his greatness in my life many times, and that is my bigger WHY for sharing this message today.
Now, struggling to fully fund a technology company I poured my heart into for several years, God speaks to me saying, “Go child and build this new community” with a feeling of urgency to begin.
But how, why, when, now?
A technology company seeking funding, with this new perspective, already had me feeling different about taking investment money. Money is power, and I feel strongly about keeping that power in the hands of the company and communities we serve.
How can we build an entire spiritually-focused technology campus, community, and healing center? The plan is not always to be known when built with trust in God.
Moving Mountains with the faith of a mustard seed.
Sharing the plan and creating momentum is the plan.
Raise community funds to acquire land or align with the right charity sponsors/partners willing to donate land to the community trust.
Housewives Grow is the fastest route to an internal revenue-making company in the community, needing little technology. Acquiring unrestricted land in the right location will allow us to quickly continue our quest to educate the community with cannabis and other grow content, events, and even retreats while perfecting our craft of herbalism as medicine inside our new community.
The bigger picture is to create a nonprofit community with community-trusted housing and common areas that serve our for-profit technology campus and event center. Housewives Grow Collective will help generate revenue and make available funds needed to grow our DankLocal Technology Campus.
Whoa! That can be a lot to digest. I know!
If you can dream it, write it down, and someone is still following the plan, this is your sign to reach out. LOL.
“For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.”
Matthew 17:20-21
With such a big mission, it can be overwhelming to know where to start, but my intuition is telling me to fundraise the land location for the community to begin attracting the necessary talent.
I won’t pretend to have all the answers, but with faith in God, WE can accomplish anything He calls us to do. If this speaks to your head and heart, we should connect.
My heart tells me to move forward and believe in His divine timing, and the resources will follow.
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:8-10
Next Steps
The next steps will be to find community sponsors/supporters and figure out our best route for a fundraising campaign. We have a long way to go here. Let’s collaborate to build better futures.
Stay tuned for future updates. Much Love to those following and blessing our journey! <3
