New Year rolls in.
Brings gifts –
– three hundred and sixty five days untrodden, all gift-wrapped.
Reams of resolutions. High hopes in spite of/ because of …
Then comes …
Evening news. Burning building collapses.
Shades of 9/11 …
Pick up phone to text Neighbour–
Me: (tap, tappity-tap) Hope your family wasn’t near the building that came down in Tehran.
Neighbour (texts): Thank God, none of my family members was in that area. I knew this building very well since my father used to have an office there when I was little. My mother was working, so he would take me to his office after school. It’s all so sad.
Me: (Tap, tap): Thank God. Sad, yes.
Avalanche in Italy buries ski resort. More earthquakes. Tsunami warning. Shooting in Texas mall.
Never ends. So what’s changed?
Nothing, it seems, but …
- Must keep looking upward, focus outward, embrace light.
– Must speak LIFE.
Proverbs 18: 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue …
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Daughters’ Christmas present hangs by writing desk. Speaks loud and clear to Heart. Heart leaps for joy –
– Must
believe.
Yes! Just getting started …
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Inspired by Puppy’s determination to keep dreaming, believing –
When all else fails …
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Box of Dreams sits by bedroom door. Weighs a ton.
Now making entries in journal number thirty six.
Been scribbling my heart out for years.
A dream catalyses the evolution of Something out of Nothing, sometimes through Unlikely Source.
Like toilet paper wedding gowns …
Plan for the rest of 2017:
(1) Quit skulking in life’s undergrowth –
… strive for the stars.
(2) Look at the bigger picture –
(3) Build more bridges (not fences) –
(4) Think outside the box –
(5) Break out of the iron bars –
So what keeps holding you back?
(6) Wear the weight of passing years like a million dollar diamond tiara –
With grace and elegance …
(6) Resurrect dead dreams –
(7) Pray more –
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Dear Me,
The dream finally came true ….
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Philippians 3: 13 But one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead …
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Ahoy there! All aboard …
Oh baby …
Some day soon.
Thankful for dreams. A reason to leap out of bed each morning.
Until next time,
