Recapturing Dreams

                  I just returned from visiting my past and it hurt.


     A friend accompanied me to an old house that held memories, and heartache and treasures that I didn't have the emotional strength to deal with several years ago. As the memories slowly filtered past my soul like silken cobwebs we walked through, I discovered something even more heartbreaking...

     I just went to the shelves to find some old How to Learn Spanish books that I wanted to review before an upcoming trip. I didn't plan to come face to face with journals of hope and fragments of dreams left gathering dust along with the books of all the projects I had left undone when I walked away from the house I spent so much time on.
 
    The true awakening came as a  paper fluttered softly to the floor. It was a story I had started many years before, handwritten like so many things I had penned. Where had that woman gone? The one who once wrote so passionately? Who journaled without fear of the words that flowed out? Did she die with the man that she was married to for so long? Where was the unrestrained desire to create, no matter what the cost or the hour?

   I left undone. I had gifts that God had given me and I had abandoned them along with books and clothes and dishes from another life. It is time to wake-up and recapture the dreams that once burned so deeply within me. I haven't lost the desire, it was just packed away with wounds that refused to heal, like they were intertwined. But now, now is the time to pack away yesterday and close the boxes of the past & write the dreams of my new life with fresh ink!

  What has died in you? What have you left undone? Today is a new day, pursue the dreams that once burned deep within you! It's not too late...

  Recapture those dreams before another year passes!

Love,

Pazazdance

A New Start ... Again???

          
     This time of year always cracks me up! People vow to change & keep the same New Year's Resolutions they made last year, again! Someone commented yesterday that this was the first time people had read their bibles consecutively for 7 days in a row since last January!  Not me, I was just finishing up my advent Bible reading plan  ;-)
                                                       What?
     So, it took me a little longer than most, it was the first thing I finished this year.
                              (New Year's Resolution #5: Finish what I start.)

The gyms are filled morning and evening, church attendance is up & dessert sales are down!
But, as with every year, that usually only lasts a month or so.

Whatever your resolutions are, they usually involve becoming a better "you". I have tried every year & usually fail miserably. I am pretty good at keeping short & sweet goals; "run to that tree"(instead of "lose 5 pounds"),  "pick up one thing" (instead of "clean the whole house"), "reply to one e-mail" (instead of "have a nervous breakdown"). You get the picture ...

  
 But this year it's different, I really am going to change, because I figured out the secret...

Instead of focusing on changing "Me", focus on being the change I want to see. I  keep hearing the repeated message "if you lead, others will follow". We've all heard the concept before, but are we doing it?

For example, the most challenging goal I've ever set is "to Change The World"

 But how do you break that down into bite-size, mini-goals? One week, one day, one act at a time! So that is what I am doing setting realistic, reachable "short & sweet" (literally) goals to change the world! (Join an outreach at church, feed the homeless, spread awareness on a personal passion, make someone smile!) This is one we can all make & keep!

  All day long, I have been singing a song that resounds from my childhood, "Let there be peace on Earth, and let it begin with Me", yet in my mind, it changes to "Let there be CHANGE on earth, and let it begin with me!"  I am making realistic goals to change the world, one day at a time, one life at a time , and maybe, just maybe, we can help someone else have ~

A NEW START, Again!


Love,
Pazazdance!