Trust That Good Will Come

I hope that you are all having a wonderful holiday season. I can't believe it's the end of the year already. Time just seems to speed up each year. Today is my wedding anniversary. I've been married for 27 years. Yes, I was a child bride. I was only 16 when I married my wonderful husband and we beat the odds by still being together all of this time. I knew the moment I met him I'd be with him forever. This is not a goofy line in a story, the honest truth -- the first time he touched me, on our very first date when I was 15 and he'd just turned 18, I felt this wild tingle run through my body. It was a physical sensation. I went home and wrote in my journal that night that I'd just met the man I'd spend the rest of my life with. Today, 27 years later with a 22-year-old son and two grandsons, we still enjoy holding hands when we walk, we finish each others' sentences, we love spending time together, have worked together in the same office for years (these days he goes to a corporate job so we aren't together all day long) and are more comfortable together than alone.

How do we do it? I think most of it is that we're soul mates. We were just meant to be together. It's a lot of hard work sometimes. And we always dream together.

Now, for the topic today. Trust that good will come. Wow. That's the tough one for me. I agonize over everything. My husband, my critique partners, my family...they all tell me to trust. Why is that so hard? I'm reading this great book, More Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie. It's designed to give you a daily meditation. I can't read one a day, though. I've just started reading it because it inspires me so much. The first day, January 1st, is "Trust That Good Will Come." She says that we tend to live in fear and anxiety, obsessing that things won't work out. Yep, that's me. She then goes on to say that you need to accept, relax, breathe, let go, trust yourself, your God, and the universe to "manifest the best possible destiny when the time is right for you."

That's my goal this year. Accept. Relax. Breathe. Let Go. Trust Myself.

Trust in yourself as you move to the end of 2006 and into a wonderful, prosperous, and most of all peaceful 2007.

If You Want Your Dreams to Come True, Don't Oversleep

Wow, I had no idea it had been almost a month since I last posted. I left off in November and suddenly, it's winter. No, this picture is NOT Arizona. But, I do miss snow this time of year. I'm from Steamboat Springs, Colorado. It's a ski resort town in the far northwest corner of Colorado. I tell people I moved to Arizona because I got cold. That is the honest truth. I was cold. I really love the weather here in Arizona (loving November through May is why I tolerate July and August), but snow for the holidays would be really nice.

Anyway, life took off on its own the last few weeks. First, I had to finish up Chasing Maggie, get it through my critique partners and make one final set of changes. There was a visit to my niece's 4th birthday in Tucson. Angelina Patricia Cruz is my husband's baby sister's daughter and absolutely adorable. She's the youngest granddaughter in the family (just two years older than my grandson) and spoiled rotten by all of us. Bill and I rented a nearby hotel room, hung out with the family during the day, enjoyed a quiet evening alone. Ahhh. It was a wonderful beginning to the holiday season. We had Thanksgiving, which was nice and quiet for us. It was a great weekend to decorate for the holidays and to get started on some shopping.

I picked up pictures of my two beautiful grandsons the day after Thanksgiving. Aren't my boys adorable?

We started off December with a fantastic party at my friend Stacey's house. She and her husband Eddie hosted the annual party for Desert Rose. She's a delightful hostess and DR members are simply the best. We had so much fun. It always serves as such a great reminder to me of just how lucky I am. Life is full of blessings -- we just get so carried away by living that we forget to live and count those blessings.

That's this month's theme for me. Count my blessings. Dream big dreams. Rejoice in the beauty around me. Don't sweat the small stuff. As you can see from my title, though, it really does matter how you pursue your dreams. You have to MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE. They aren't just going to happen for you. We must be in charge of our own destiny.

To help make my dream come true this month I finished the final final edits on Chasing Maggie. I won't touch it again until (not if) an editor or agent wants me to make changes. I sent off the requested full. I submitted it to the Golden Heart contest. I have two more queries finished and ready to go out this week. I finished outlining the next 5 novels. I've completed the detailed outline and character sketches for the next book. Oh, and I'm organizing my office. Those housekeeping things really are important -- you can't pursue your dream if you can't remember where you filed it.

So, that's what I woke up and did this week. How about you? What dreams do you want to make come true?