By: Gabriela Yareliz
Ready for Monday? I am not sure how I am feeling about Monday. Mondays can be pretty numbing. Anyway, here we are at another week. We are heading straight into knee-deep October. Rumor has it eggnog will soon be arriving, and maybe once Halloween passes we will have our local pharmacy back. It currently looks like a haunted house.
I met interesting people on the train this week. The other day, I met the most intriguing and friendly flight attendant. She was one of those people who seems so cool; the type of person who just leaves you in awe.
You see and meet all kinds of people and creatures in the tunnels and on these streets. I met a little dog who was dressed up in a lion costume. A fierce little pup. I have a feeling I am going to need that costume myself this week.
Sometimes, we reach interesting crossroads in our lives. We have no doubt God has taken us there, but we know it’s not the end. So, as we stop to look at our maps and figure out where we are, we also have to look up and ask for guidance and clarity to see where we are going. It’s about keeping the future goal in mind, while making the most of the present.
It’s important to remember the trip is just beginning. Some things are temporary; others are lessons; others are meant to be; and others are opportunities we need to accept or reject. GPS is searching for signal.
This week, don’t forget your lion suit. Showing up and being fierce– that is already half of the battle. Go show the jungle what royalty looks like, and I will join you along the way.
xoxo.
“She wasn’t afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular path.
Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in future, she might regret the choices she made now. ‘I’m afraid of committing myself,’ she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.”
Paulo Coelho, Brida
“We are most like beasts when we kill, most like men when we judge, most like God when we forgive.”
Unknown
“Sometimes it feels good to take the long way home.”
Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home 
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
Thomas Aquinas 
Wild is the music of the autumnal wind
Among the faded woods; but these blithe notes
Strike the deserted to the heart;
William Wordsworth, “The Excursion” 
“Why should I gain from His reward? I cannot give an answer. But this I know with my heart, His wounds have paid my ransom.”
How Deep the Father’s Love for Us
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson
“The heart must mend, whether it’s mending from a lost love, failed dreams, or hopes crushed. The heart must mend, and you will never know when it is done healing, you will simply find yourself much lighter than you have ever felt because finally the heart can retain beauty and joy once more.”
T.B. LaBerge 
“The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.” Randy Pausch
[Images from Tumblr]
GABRIELA YARELIZ 