Believe, hope, dream,
dance in the daylight … live in the moment … laugh out loud … eat chocolate …
cherish your girlfriends … breathe … sneak small moments of solitude … let no
one break your spirit … love with open arms … laugh some more … believe in the
amazing woman you are … never ever give up. – Lisa Pollock
These are the words scrawled across a gift that I gave my
daughter as part of her graduation gift. The moment I read these words I just
knew it was THE gift I had to give. The significance of the words held me fast.
Having already weathered some of lifes storms and knowing how the days of life
can unravel with sudden momentum and tangle us in unbelieveable knots, I wanted
my girl to hold onto some thoughts that could knit together a tightly woven
fabric of hope that will keep out the cold when the storms of life are threatening
her horizons. I want her to know that there is a way to do life well.
A way to face life,
A way to hold on.
A way to cherish this
life,
however it unfolds!
To believe … hope …
dream,
ALWAYS!
ALWAYS!
To dance in the
daylight,
to celebrate life.
To laugh out loud,
to cherish the little
things.
To let no one break
her spirit,
to remain unaffected.
To love with open
arms,
to embrace
wholeheartedly.
To never ever give up,
to fight for what she
believes in!
… to celebrate everything that truly makes
living this amazing life, beautiful!
As my daughter begins to journey out her own life, (separate
from mine, aahh!!), my mothers heart longs for her to do well and to hold fast
to what is true … to navigate this life, her life with blessed assurance. I
want her believe that anything truly is possible, to hold fast to an unwavering
hope (for it really is an anchor for the soul) and to dream big for it is in
dreaming that we give permission for the hidden things deep inside to be breathtakingly revealed
on the outside.
