A Leap of Faith

Everything needs to begin from somewhere.

A massive acorn tree
doesn't start out as a tree. It comes from a small seed.

Humans aren't born walking, talking, and full grown. (Ouch!) We start from a minuscule egg that is fertilized by a much smaller sperm.

Everything on this planet has started out from something small. A humble beginning.

When you make the conscious choice to change the direction that your life is going in, you usually have to take that first small step in the direction that you want to go in.

It's that first small step that is the hardest to take because it is a leap of faith.

Every negative thought imaginable will pop into your head as you begin to lift your foot off the ground.

They did for me.

For each small step I have taken. I have heard those voices. Those fear-voices.

They are scared and so will you when you take that first step. That small, giant leap of faith.

Yes you may stumble. I won't lie to you. I did. More than once. It hurts.

That is why I am here. To show you that it takes a small step to move beyond where your life is at. It takes a small step to get past our boundaries, our comfort zone, to reach for the life that we know we are capable of achieving.

If and only if we can see, hear, and acknowledge the fear-voices. If and only if we can hear them for what they are and let them go. Don't ignore them. Don't smother them. Face them and love them...and let them go.

To live a life of harmony we must start from a humble beginning and take that small step... that little leap of faith.

Blessings and Love,
Andrea Faye

Taking the Initiative

I was astonished, my first year in Idaho, at just how much snow could fall in one night. Every year since then I have noticed less and less snowfall.

This morning I looked out my window in hopeful anticipation of a "White Christmas" only to see the dull green grass and a clear blue sky. My Kiddos and Hubby were also disappointed.

We did the usual Christmas morning, present-opening-chaotic-mess-making-merriment. After all was picked up, tried on, played with and not put away, Hubby and I walked into the kitchen to make some food and talked about how pretty the mountains must be with all the snow up there...

...we put the food away...

...told Kiddos to bundle up...

...loaded into my wagon...

ROADTRIP!!!!

Yes we went on a Christmas Day Roadtrip into the mountains!

Just about 100 miles from home we found a beautifully white oasis to play in the wet fluffy stuff! Snow balls flew as soon as everyone got out if the car!

We even went out on the edge of the lake near by and skated on the ice! (It was the first for my Kiddos and I!)

We were exhausted, cold, and soaked by the time we stumbled back to the car.

We dusted off snow, kicked off footwear, peeled off socks, cuddled under blankets and blasted the car's heater.

We were red cheecked and red nosed happy!

We had so much fun we didn't remember to make a snow man!

We stopped at the first gas station found open and got hot chocolate for the Kiddos.

We listened to one of our audiobooks, enjoyed the scenery, and the Kiddos napped on the way back down.

We saw bald eagles, geese, ravens, deer. We examined animal prints in the snow by the lake.

We enjoyed Nature's bounty!

More importantly...we rook the initiative to GO and have the Winter experience we had wanted.

We went and did.

We Did Not sit and mope. We Did Not complain about not being able to do or not do.

We went and did!

We took the initiative of going where we needed to go and accomplished what we wanted to accomplish.

We took the initiative!

It was a magical few hours that almost didn't happen. Memories that almost didn't occur. A family milestone was almost missed!

Take the initiative in your life!