Month: April 2009

Mindset: The Journey Into A Dream

Every destination is the beginning of a new journey just as every thought can the beginning of a new dream. Upon arrival, if we step back for a moment then we see where it all began. We further see why we started, how we have traveled and where we have been. And mostly we see where we are now and this is a must in order to move to other places we wish to go.

Stepping back in our lives does not make us weak, misguided or hinder us from moving forward. It gives us perspective and the tools such as humility and patience that we often find so difficult to use in everyday life, to strengthen our will as we dream. It is in the rare moments in which we reflect upon the rough road behind that we are allowed the opportunity of seeking the smoothest highway ahead to reach our next destination.

Taking a pause from the chaos of everyday life and after the moments of victory, even for only a moment, can sometimes be our only window in which to view the map of that long and narrow path that leads to the ultimate ends of our dreams.

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Mindset: Perfect For The Job

Mindset: Perfect For The Job

At times throughout our existence, we find ourselves in positions or situations that seem to go against our natural character. We are forced to act and make decisions that make us feel uncomfortable and sometimes even guilty for our lack of knowledge, experience, or natural ability
It would seem as though this is a contradiction in how we are designed. Why would we be created to be a certain way only to be thrust into situations where we feel we are not equipped with the tools necessary to perform the task? Could it be the fact that we know we are lacking makes us perfect for the job?
Our Creator wants us to move beyond what we only believe we can do and into what He knows we can do. Every tool to succeed in every endeavor is within reach be it faith, confidence or knowledge once we choose to accept life’s challenges. The answer to the question lies in the idea that without the challenges in our lives we would never reach beyond what was given to us at creation to grow into the vision of greatness our Creator has seen all along.

In A New Light: Rays Of Light Within The Darkness

During the Holocaust, a brave group of people who had lost everything except their own lives, took a stand to risk their only tie left to this world—their very existence.
On October 7, 1944, several hundred Jewish prisoners at the death camp Auschwitz (at Birkenau,) was being forced to carry corpses from the gas chambers to the furnace to dispose of the bodies. In those horrible moments, they chose to show the scope of humanity’s spirit in one of the world’s darkest hours.
The band of broken, weak souls blew up one of the gas chambers and set fire to another, using explosives smuggled to them from Jewish women who worked in a nearby armaments factory.
Out of the 450 prisoners involved in the sabotage, 250 managed to escape the camp. They would all eventually be found and executed as well as those co-conspirators who never made it out of the camp and the five women from the armaments factory.
Their actions, however, are a lesson in the sense that we should never stop fighting for what is right and good even when it seems hopeless. When we choose to give up, then those who oppress and harm us find our acceptance in their deeds, but when we fight, they are forced to ask why and within that answer lies the judgment of their very actions.