{"id":1369,"date":"2010-11-14T19:46:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T19:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womens-spirituality.com\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2010-11-14T19:46:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T19:46:08","slug":"how-limited-are-your-dreams-and-aspirations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womens-spirituality.com\/?p=1369","title":{"rendered":"How limited are your dreams and aspirations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a great talk today about the limitations we place on ourselves. \u00a0The speaker insisted, and I agree, that our vision of who God is and what can be accomplished with God as the &#8220;bus driver,&#8221; is far smaller than the reality.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve likely been doubting our capabilities on many fronts for years: avoiding a particular sport, perhaps; or being afraid to apply for a different job, sure we couldn&#8217;t get it or &#8220;do it&#8221; if we got it, or even approaching a person we&#8217;d like to become friends with. \u00a0Because we let our doubts imprison us, we fail to become the men and women we were born to be. \u00a0There is a successful, confident person within each of us but we have to step <em>around <\/em>the veil of doubt and let her out. \u00a0God will help. \u00a0We simply have to ask.<\/p>\n<p>Embracing this idea can change every future experience any one of us has. Being afraid to try something new or talk to people I didn&#8217;t know haunted my journey for decades. \u00a0Now I can&#8217;t imagine living in that restricted space. \u00a0Every thing about my life is based on the idea that the words that come quietly into my mind, are worth sharing; and wherever I am, I have been sent and I need to welcome all of those individuals who have likewise been sent to the same spot. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know if the people I approach are &#8220;happy I came,&#8221; but I do know that my sense of well-being requires it of me.<\/p>\n<p>It has made my journey far more peaceful to simply trust that wherever I am, God is there too and the dreams I have, have been <em>given to me<\/em> because they are specific to the strengths I have been blessed with. \u00a0There was a time in my past when I would have gagged on the words I share so freely now. \u00a0Thank goodness I have decided to believe what I share now. \u00a0The end result is being able to live peacefully and that&#8217;s far preferable to the anxiety I harbored but tried desperately to shun in my earlier years.<\/p>\n<p>We are as free and as capable as we make up our minds to be. \u00a0Not unlike the words of Abe Lincoln, who supposedly said, &#8220;we are as happy as we make up our minds to be,&#8221; the future can mirror what we imagine. \u00a0My life has become a reflection of this. \u00a0Has yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a great talk today about the limitations we place on ourselves. \u00a0The speaker insisted, and I agree, that our vision of who God is and what can be accomplished with God as the &#8220;bus driver,&#8221; is far smaller than the reality. 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