Let’s play a game for a minute.
(I love games – in fact, Dan and I challenge each other to a game of Backgammon each night – he’s been on a winning streak lately, but I have a feeling the tables are about to turn in my favor…) Anyway – let’s pretend that you won a game, and the prize was a house of your choice. You could either move into a house filled with joy or a house filled with sorrow.
Which would you choose?
I would guess that the majority of us would
Dan and I were playing mini golf yesterday, and towards the end of the course, we came across a wishing well. We each made a wish, kissed the pennies, and then threw them in. And we went about finishing the game. (We were tied up until the 17th hole, where I took 11 tries to hit the ball in. Needless to say, Dan won.) 🙂
But this whole wishing well idea got me thinking about intentions and goal setting and visioning our best life.
I recently changed my diet. I had been feeling pretty crappy for quite awhile whenever I ate anything, and a few weeks ago I got really sick and could hardly eat anything at all for a few days. I knew that something needed to change. But I didn’t want to change anything. Because for years, my body had been telling me exactly what I needed to eliminate. My body had been urging me to stop ingesting it. It would rebel after I ate it, and still I pushed on and ingested food that was quickly
We all have the best of intentions to create lasting change and live our best lives. If we find a new tip or tool that we are sure will make us feel better, we want to leap right in and integrate it into our lives. We want to be happier, more grounded, more full of life, joyful, grateful, and every other word that conjures up images in our head of a wonderful life.
And so – with the absolute best of intentions and a heart that’s only filled with excitement about the possibility for
Dear you,
You don’t have to live this way. On the floor of your life, looking up and seeing that crack of light, reaching out to it – wanting so badly to get up and move toward it – but feeling too tired and hopeless and just too overwhelmed to move closer.
You don’t have to live this way. With fear closing in all around you – keeping you all caged up. Like a bird who yearns to fly – who know how to fly –
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