A Little Inspriation In Case You're In Need Right Now...

Someone I've come to know who has what sounds like a VERY fun business in France (buying trips, antiques dealer, etc.) just sent me a link to an auction she has on ebay for a fabulous French plate that has all the perfect elements: black & white, great graphics, and the BEST saying (printed on the backside)!

I'd buy this plate just for what it says:

*Chez beaucoup de gens l'esprit brille au dépend du coeur.*

(For a lot of people the mind is used at the expense of the heart.)

Wow. I love that...And how true.

So...what might you be using your head too much about right now, at the expense of your heart?? I already know that for some, the very idea that you could 'use your head too much' might sound perfectly ridiculous. Not so fast...I really do think we can "think" something to death - even "reason" ourselves out of a dream that just might otherwise come to fruition.

Now, I'm not talking about making reckless, wholesale changes and decisions with no thought given at all. I think you know what I mean here. How much more would you really, truly LIVE if you were to lead a little more with your heart vs. your head? I'm just sayin'... :)

Lets take a look at what two otherwise perfectly intelligent and rather accomplished men in history have said about such things:

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live." -- Mark Twain

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." (Guess who?)

-- Albert Einstein

And the MOST intelligent man who ever lived, Solomon, writes this:

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life.

-- Proverbs 13:12

Oh please don't give up on your dreams. Its easy to get impatient and frustrated, I know! They may be still just a distant echo. A far-away mirage. Pursue them as far as it is practical to do so now, but never - ever - put them away, on a shelf. A dream - even just one - is at times all the fuel we need to keep moving some days.

This one's for you:

Hurry up and wait

So close, but so far away

Everything that you've always dreamed of is

Close enough for you to taste

But for now you just can't touch

You wanna show the world,

but no one knows your name yet...

You wonder when & where & how you're gonna "make it"

You know you can

if you could just get the chance.

But in your face the door keeps slamming.

Now you're feeling more and more frustrated

And you're getting all kind of impatient waiting

So we live and we learn to take one step at a time,

there's no need to rush...

It's like learning to fly

or falling in love

And it's gonna happen when it's supposed to happen

and we find the reasons why...

one step at a time.

You believe/and you doubt.

You're confused/you got it all figured out.

Everything that you always wished for

could be yours,

should be yours,

would be yours

if they only knew...

You wanna show the world, but no one knows your name yet

You begin to wonder when

and where

and how

you're gonna "make it",

You know you can if you get the chance

But in your face the door keeps slamming

Now you're feeling more and more frustrated

And you're getting all kind of impatient waiting

So when you can't wait any longer

And there's no end in sight

It's your faith that will make you stronger

And the only way you're gonna get there

Is

one

step

at

a

time...

Dreaming Right Along With You,

Ruth