Visionary or Midwife?: Knowing Your Role in the Birth of a Vision

Maturity is knowing when to carry the vision—and when to help deliver it.

There’s a sacred tension in being a visionary—especially when you’ve matured to the place where you can discern that not every vision is yours to carry full-term. Some visions are meant for you to birth entirely, and others… you're simply called to be the midwife.

This is where I find myself now. In a space of spiritual and strategic maturity. I’ve spent years carrying ideas from inception to manifestation—laboring through seasons that stretched my faith, tested my stamina, and demanded relentless execution. But now, I’m learning something deeper: the weight of wisdom is knowing when the vision isn’t yours to build, but yours to help bring forth.

There’s a difference between being the visionary and being the strategic midwife. The visionary is responsible for nurturing the idea from seed to structure. They carry the weight, the war, and the wonder of it all. But the midwife? The midwife has trained hands, prophetic precision, and insight to know when to push, when to rest, and how to help deliver what’s not theirs to keep.

Both are divine assignments.

In seasons past, I would take ownership of anything I saw that needed to be built. If I had the capacity, I’d start building. If I had the resources, I’d invest. But now I’m learning that just because you can build it doesn’t mean you were meant to Own it—or fully own it. Especially when you're thinking in terms of business strategy. (But we’ll unpack that another time. 😊)

Sometimes your assignment is to activate someone else’s vision—to offer the blueprint, the connections, the language, the push—so they can bring forth what’s been stirring inside them.

And truthfully? That takes just as much anointing, trust, and discipline.

When you’re called to be a midwife, your reward is not the brand, the title, or the recognition. Your reward is knowing that you helped someone else fulfill a divine assignment—without needing to put your name on it.

That’s maturity.
That’s clarity.
That’s kingdom strategy.

So, if you’re like me—sensing a shift—don’t ignore the inner nudge. You may not be the one to build the platform this time. You may not be the voice at the mic or the name on the flyer. But you still have a divine role to play. Strategy is still sacred. And the midwife is just as vital as the mother.

Know your role. And play it boldly.