believe

Today is the day that I move back to my dorm room for the remainder of the semester.  Spring Break is over and classes are about to resume. I got a book that is called 'believe' from a company called Peter Pauper Press.  It is a little pocket book with daily inspirational quotes.  As I have been reading the beginning pages I have been contemplating the word believe. People always tell you to believe, but believe in what? Is it in the things that I can do? In my faith? In those around me?

The introduction to the books says:

"Magic is believing in yourself," said 

Goethe. "If you can do that, you can 

make anything happen."  Let this little 

book of wisdom help you work that 

magic.  Take its words to heart as 

you pursue your dreams.  Believe, and 

live by your beliefs.  Persist, and make 

stepping stones of stumbling blocks.  

The key to your life is within you 

right now.  Take it, and unlock the 

door to life's possibilities.

I don't know that the word believe really has to be focused on simply one thing.  To believe is to have faith in everything.  It is hard to believe that we leave for Sierra Leone in 56 days. As the time gets closer and closer I am beginning to get more and more excited! I am ready to take advantage of this possibility. Actually it is no longer simply a possibility that I will be able to meet the children and people I have heard so much about this year in a country so far away.  It has become a reality and an opportunity and I BELIEVE in the change I will be able to help make.

Now... 

Are you living by your beliefs?  

Are your blocks still stumbling? 

Where is your key?  

Are you ready to believe?