Starting the Journey Over

In life we are going to have times that are painful and times that break us.  We are sometimes powerless to defend ourselves from the attacks that come.  We are faced with a decision at this point. How do we fight these attacks once they have happened? There are several ways we can fight.  We can fight silently.  Sometimes we do not need to speak our opposition to be heard.  Sometimes we need to let others fight for us.  We are given the right people in life at the right times.  Their words may be better received than our own.  Sometimes prayer is the only answer. No matter which route is right for the place you are at in life you also have a choice to rise above.  You can take the high road.  Why throw stones and act petty.  Take that road less traveled and don't take the bait.  When life or the people in it attack, you get to choose how you react.  Let's be honest though, our first reaction sometimes is not the one w...

There's a loaded statement.  Taking risks is scary, and it means having to step outside of your comfort zone.  Do you want to live a life where you know you gave it your all, or do you want to look back at your life and wonder what could have been?  Do you want to take charge and take the risk or go with the flow, waiting for life to happen to you? I say, why wait?  Jump in and take the risk!  If you are too afraid of failure to take the risk,  you have already failed.  And many times, you will fail before you succeed.  It's what you do with that failure that matters. Don't stay where it's comfortable, push yourself to do better and be better!  Great things happen when we allow ourselves to get a little uncomfortable in pursuit of our dreams.  Go take the risk and make those dreams a reality!

We grew up being taught to believe in fairy tales.  Most little girls wanted to be that princess in the beautiful dress with her Prince Charming.  But, what if fairy tales don't look the way we thought they should. I got married young and thought it was going to be the fairy tale life I had dreamt of.  Naive is what I was.  When your heart gets broken again and again by the relationship with the person who is supposed to be your partner, you completely lose yourself.  When you think it's going to be different this time, but then you find yourself crying yourself to sleep almost every night because nothing is different.  You still don't matter.  I felt like was screaming at the top of my lungs to just be seen, but I may as well have been invisible.  This was both of our fault.  I want to make sure that everyone knows it takes two to make a relationship fail.  I had this picture of what life was going to be, and it was nowhere near what ...