Henri Nouwen once said, “…we will never believe that we have anything to give unless there is someone who is able to receive.  Indeed, we discover our gifts in the eyes of the receiver.”  That quote captures me because we try so hard to figure out who we are in a vacuum.  The surest way to discover who we are and what God has created us to do is to serve the other.  Mission means that we must go beyond the talk and the rhetoric and actually look another person in the eyes.