New Phase

Thank you so much to each of you who visited me here and contributed your thoughts and comments. I've loved writing here and really enjoyed the journey.

I have recently started writing on a new blog, Emerging From Broken, and I invite you to visit me there! It's a site all about the journey to wholeness, and your thoughts and comments will be very welcome there, as they were here. For the time being, I'll be posting at this new site.

With love,
Carla

I Am... I Do

I am Beautiful... Therefore I do beautiful things

I am Valuable... Therefore I do valuable things

It's not the other way around.

Desire is a Muscle

When I was born I didn't cry or scream or anything. I wasn't flat-lined; just didn't feel like crying. The doctors had to slap me to make me cry! At times throughout my life, I have defined myself by that picture. I have thought, "I wasn't born ambitious. My personality is pretty neutral. I just don't have the desire or the drive it takes to become or pursue something really great with my life. Just wasn't born with it."

This isn't true. It's something I've learned to do to ward off disappointment. It's a way of writing myself off so that if I don't acheive the dreams in my heart, I can say, "Well, I guess there was just some fault in my wiring. I was born that way."

Maybe you've felt the same way about yourself. What I want to say is that desire is in all of us. It is there- it is part of who we are. Maybe it was there more strongly when we were children, and we've since learned to ignore it because our disappointments have been so painful.

I believe desire can be nourished. It is there, though it may be unpracticed. That I have great desire and ambition for something programmed into my DNA is a truth, even if my conviction of it is strong one day and weak the next. Even if it is just for one moment a day to start, I can excercise it. What were my desires as a child? What do I desire for today? For next week? Next month? Next year?...

Our bodies need food to have energy. So do our souls. I believe a latent soul can be revived by being fed good food, the truth. The truth energizes my soul. Dreams can come alive again. Desire can be practiced.

"When you're going through hell, keep going."

~Winston Churchill~

At another Beginning

Happy New Year! Hello 2009. Goodbye 2008. What do you leave behind in 2008? What do you carry with you? What dreams or hopes stir in your soul for 2009?

I'm learning the power of thought. Here's some quotes from Napoleon Hill to ring in the new year. I wish you a great year- it is full of potential!

"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge."

"Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Speed of an equivalent or greater Benefit."

"If you think you are beaten, you are,

If you think you dare not, you don't.

If you like to win, but you think you can't,

It is almost certain you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost,

For out in the world we find,

Success begins with a person's will-

It's all in the state of mind."

~Napoleon Hill~ Think and Grow Rich