The Hero’s Heart

“Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero’s heart”

All you bad guys out there: don’t even think about it.. Any funny business – and you will have to answer to this big little hero

When You Believe

I just realized that I haven’t been posting any music on my blog for a very long time – not good. Here’s a song I heard on the radio while driving home yesterday. It’s a song that has been an inspiration to me ever since the first day I heard it.

It has a beautiful message.

For Inspiration

Found this very inspirational video that I just have to share with you. Put your headphones on and enjoy! And remember; What you think, you become ~Buddha

The Greatest Life

Run towards your fears. Embrace them. On the other side of your greatest fears lives your Greatest Life. ~ Robin Sharma

Beyond doubt; this is easier said than done. We all have our own fears, deep inside. Often, the only person knowing what those fears are, is the one having them. Still, I think the above quote is a real powerful one.

Do I possess the strength and power to actually run towards my fears and embrace them? I honestly don’t know. But I believe I owe it to myself to try, even though it – well… scares me. Because the latter part of this quote “your greatest life” – that sounds wonderful, don’t you think?

Isn’t that what it’s all about -  in every way making the most of the life God has given us. Becoming everything we can be.

The Colors of Change

We know for a fact, change is an inevitable part of life. Still, our immediate response to change often seems to be resistance.

When we realize that something in our lives is about to change, it is often seen as a threat. We wish to stay with the routine and what’s familiar and safe. We wish for things to stay the way they always did. I suppose it’s only natural. After all, in order to move on we must leave our own comfort zone, and head off to what’s unknown and uncertain. Clearly it’s uncomfortable. It may be scary or even hurtful.

Even so, I believe we owe it to ourselves to ask this one question; Why do I wish to stick with what’s familiar and safe? Is it because it’s really something good, because this is everything I wanted my life to be like?

Or is it because I am afraid to embrace the unknown, because I am unwilling to admit to myself that there is something unsatisfactory or incomplete about the life I am currently living?

As we grow older, we watch and interact with the world around us; we learn, we explore, we realize things we previously would fail to understand. We reach the end of an era, and the beginning of something new.

Life itself is our teacher, continuously educating us as we keep walking its path. And change is necessary for us to reach our dreams and let us become who we need to be deep inside. And so it comes down to this:

Being willing to surrender what we are, in order to embrace what we may become.

Nature welcomes the Colors of Change. Do you and I have the courage to do the same?

Fly Anyway

Recently we bought “The Bee Movie” for the kids. It’s a cute story; about friendship, courage, independence, and discovering the meaning of life.

What I’d like to share with you though, are a few words at the very beginning of the movie:

According to all known laws of aviation,

there is no way that a bee should be able to fly.

Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground.

The bee, of course, flies anyway.

Because bees don’t care what humans think is impossible.

I think it’s brilliant; the bee flies anyway, because bees don’t care what humans think is impossible.

In life, we may sometimes experience that people around us are not supporting our plans and dreams. They may tell us that we mustn’t, we shouldn’t, we can’t. Maybe they do this based on a sincere wish to protect us from disappointment or even danger. But it may also be that they are generally afraid of anything that is not 100 % safe and secure. However, in most cases; if you want to accomplish something, then you must be willing to take a chance or two.

So what is my point exactly? Simply this:

If there is something you need to do, something that you really believe in, and you know within your heart that you can make it; don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t.

Fly anyway!

Standing Out from the Ordinary

I attended a ceramics class recently. It was fun, but not quite as easy as it looks. You can see the result of my struggles from the photo below. Most of my projects came out.. well.. not so bad. But the last one.. it was a total disaster. At least that’s what it felt like, at first. But then I reconsidered; aren’t the (almost) perfect ones a bit… boring?

I decided to put them all up for glazing. The glaze melted, filling in the uneven shapes of my “disastrous” pot in many beautiful shades of blue. Definitely the most interesting one of my projects!

Sticking out from the crowd isn’t always all that fun, I guess we have all experienced that at some point. It sometimes takes a lot of courage. Still, aren’t the most interesting people those who really dare to be themselves, standing up for what they truly believe? Isn’t that what brings us forward and helps us develop as human beings; the thoughts and actions that make us stand out from the ordinary?

I came across these wise words just the other day:

“In order to be remarkable, one must dare to be different”

Let’s have the courage to be different, no matter what people say. That way life will become far more interesting, also giving us a greater ability to touch the lives of others.

Wishing you all a great, remarkable day!

Linda