Hope

The disaster of Hope I realize now that I have quit my job at the church is that 'hope and work' are tied together. Without an ability to DO something about your dreams, they stagnate, they frustrate, and they ultimately disappear.

Letting go is just as hard as anticipating something new. To let go means you gotta let go of all the dreams, all the things you were working towards and all the security doing the same thing gives you. The new thing is really not their yet. In our case we haven't evensettled on one clear decision.

I really get the idea of journey now. I can't stay, I finished on sunday. Gotta move ahead, and I hope it's good, but there is no guarantee. Without an ability to tangibly do something, hope is as elusive as planning good weather for your vacation. We never dream of it raining on our trip to the Caribbean, and when it does we feel bumbed, but if it's going to rain, it's going to rain. It's no wonder we get depressed when we are working at a dead end job, or when we have dreams we can never realize.

The journey comes with no guarantee.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen events, meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come their way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!”
~ W.H. Murray Quotes

I borrowed this from an AWESOME blog on world travel with children. Quite inspiring: It is entitled "Soultravellers3" about a family that has traveled all over the world out of their RV. My brain is on overdrive.
K.

first inspirational song of travel

Dave Matthew's 'you and me'