Born to Care

Lorna Owens, CEO of Desert Sage Lifestyle Wellness Company, listens intently as nurses in Ghana share their experiences caring for malnourished babies.

In this powerful moment captured at a healthcare facility in Ghana, Lorna Owens, founder and CEO of Desert Sage Lifestyle Wellness Company, engages in heartfelt conversation with frontline nurses. The nurses are sharing their daily challenges and triumphs in caring for malnourished and vulnerable newborns—stories that reflect deep dedication, compassion, and resilience. This exchange embodies the theme Born to Care,a tribute to those who serve tirelessly in maternal and neonatal health. Listening to their insights is not only essential to Desert Sage’s mission to reduce maternal and infant mortality but is also a sacred act of bearing witness to the strength and courage of healthcare workers across the globe.

Born to Serve

Lorna Owen’s

To be born to serve is not a role you choose — it is a calling that chooses you. It is a sacred imprint etched into your soul long before you had language to name it. It whispers to you in the quiet hours. It nudges you forward when logic says turn back. It is the fire in your bones when you are weary and the light in your eyes when the world is dark.

To be born to serve is to carry a fierce tenderness — one that shows up for mothers in labor, for babies gasping for air, for communities left unseen. It is not glamorous. It is not easy. It is the holy work of bending low to lift others up.

It means walking into remote villages, down dusty roads and winding alleyways, alone sometimes, guided only by the compass of compassion. It is listening deeply — to nurses who have seen too much, to grandmothers raising generations, to the cries of life fighting to begin.

To serve is to keep showing up even when you are under-resourced — when the clinic lacks oxygen, when there’s no power, no gloves, no pay. It is the audacity to hope anyway. It is wrapping your arms around a grieving mother, holding space for her pain when the medicine has run out. It is midwives delivering life in the shadows, with dignity, with hands blessed by centuries of wisdom.

To serve when you are not financially well-off is the purest offering. It means you give not from abundance, but from belief. You give because you must. Because you see that each act — each cup of tea, each whispered prayer, each medical training, each midwife scholarship — is a thread in the tapestry of healing the world.

To be born to serve is to know that your reward may not be material, but eternal. It is joy found in the eyes of a mother who lives. It is peace felt in the cry of a newborn who has made it. It is legacy — not in monuments, but in the lives saved quietly, one by one, in forgotten corners of the earth.

You serve not because you have everything.  You serve because you know what it means to have nothing — and still give love.

That is what it means to be born to serve.