Life it’s self is hard to describe aside from the many complexing tasks in our hands. There’s the “to do list”, the wants and self dictated tasks, and then of course, all the expectations of others. I’ve never been one to reject a persons desire for setting an accomplishment for me. Rather I should say, to dissatisfy their anticipation of a certain belief; but then again, who is? Life is so much more complicated than being able to please the everyone who surrounds me. There is an edge, a statement to be made, a dedication to envelop, a stigma to live out, real feelings involved, and those days that the rain just pours. 

Have you ever sat through a storm so big and heavy, just watching out the window, seeing your world slowly disappear under a smoggy tide? Some like the rain and it’s particular weight on the world, maybe they like it because they understand a bigger picture. But most when they think of a storm and it’s rain, they tie it to sorrow and unkindly circumstances, to pain and suffering, or a disliked situation. I suppose that if not carful, this drudgery would contaminate a mind as if life was distressing. It became know to me, however, when watching a torrential down pour out my front window a few months back, that its more than just a down pour. Each drop touches a part of the earth and as each plant, soil, and all things created are soaked with a muggy wetness, becoming more and more blurry, when the rain stop, they have grown and flourished into something greater than before. 

I believe that our life, our rainy days, can be the same day if we look at it with the correct perspective. When I have rainy days, it is a very difficult thing and has a way on pulling on my heart strings, but I also have seen some great days. I know that eventually the rain will stop, the water will reseed, and life can be more than it ever had potential to be before- you just have to out endure the storm. Keep a positive prospective even when it rains.  

Living by Faith,
Mianna

“Without belief you’ll never get there, so believing that you can is crucial to the process. Doubting yourself and whether or not you can do it means that you’ll only give half-hearted effort, and that won’t be nearly as powerful as you could be. Belief can do it all, just believe that you can accomplish the first step in getting there.”- Alexa Jean Brown via Instagram @alexajeanfitness


In life there are many obstacles and unknowns, many uncertainties and doubts, and all those of which can repulse us from achieving who we are truly created to be. Alexa Jean Brown quotes how those doubts relay into a lack of effort. She so finely points out how if you don’t try full heartedly to get there, than how can you state you can never do it. We all have our dreams, missions, longings in life no matter how big or risky they may be. From becoming a winning race-car driver, to hiking Mount Everest with your children or loved ones, or maybe knitting a shirt for a new baby. What ever that image of your imagination pulls on your heartstrings, don’t let the obstacles in the way detract you from even starting that wonderful journey. 


The wandering can be so much more beautiful than the prize. Getting lost in the journey is an unexpected love. Once you decide to grasp on to determination of accomplishment, the first step, you can uncover a new side of your own person that you never knew was there. A goal or accomplishment is nice and satisfying for a few moments, but the wandering in the journey, the moment you start to create your memory of how special your accomplishments are, that is a memory that will last forever. 


Don’t sell yourself short. You are amazing. All you have to accomplish is that first step until the unraveling reveal of the special, self-satisfying moments. Go, push, believe- just do it. 

Living by Faith, 
Mianna