Thursday, February 28, 2013

Leap of Faith


Sometimes its hard in this life we live, to put aside our cannot's our won'ts and our couldn't be's. We grow accustomed to doubt. It creeps up on us like a dull toothache, making us feel less lively, less sure of ourselves. I'm familiar with both -the toothache just this week in fact! Ugh. But that's not the point, really.
I could write another book about uncertainty and anxiety and how they can chip away at your faith in something. I'm sure you can all relate only too well. How many times has doubt kept you from going for and ultimately reaching some desired goal?
Martin Luther King said, "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." This latest hop from Kathy at I'm a Reader Not a Writer where we are leaping into books,(see here) http://www.iamareader.com/2012/12/leap-into-book-giveaway-hop-february.html makes me think about the ways we can go about obtaining our desires. We can move gingerly, one tentative foot in front of the other, or we can, well, leap! We can dive in head first and hope for the best. Either way, the thing that matters most is that we try.
Many of the books we read are stories of adventures, be they glorious, suspenseful or otherwise. We love to  slip into these tales and dance around vicariously in somebody else's shoes.
It's important to bear in mind that this life was not meant to be indirectly savored. We must do what we can to shake the doubt-demon from our minds and experience our own joys, our own triumphs and certainly (unfortunately at times) our own let-downs. How else will we know what we are truly capable of?
By all means, I urge you to continue to read all you can, to make new friends with new fictional characters and visit their lives. Yet I also suggest that we simultaneously remain firmly implanted in our own worlds, and strive to complete our own stories, too.
Thanks so much for dropping by and don't forget to enter our Leaping Giveaway below. There's a chance you could win an e-copy of WISHLESS and a $5.00 Amazon e-gift card. Please feel free to share an example of your own leap of faith with us in the comments section.





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36 comments:

  1. Kindness if very important to me. It is sad to me that some people don't know how to be kind.

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  2. Taking the time to think of other people and help them out

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  3. Kindness is spending quality time with people you care for, listening to their problems and trying to help them out.

    It doesn't matter if you are unable to help, it is enough that you were there for them.

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  4. Kindness means doing something nice that isn't expected or required.

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  5. Kindness is doing something to someone that is unexpected.

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  6. Kindness is being selfless and doing something for someone just because you can, not because it helps you :)

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  7. Kindness is when someone does something selfless to/for you without expecting anything in return.

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  8. Paying attention, really paying attention to those around you.

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  9. it means doing something nice for someone without expecting something back in return!

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  10. Kindness means doing something for someone not because you want something because you want too.

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  11. Kindness means doing something nice for someone although they never ask, without expecting something in return.

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  12. For me it's doing something selfless for someone else without expecting something in return. Thank you for a chance to win and for being a part of this fun and awesome blog hop!!

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  13. Kindness is showing compassion and respect to all individuals.
    Thanks for the giveaway!

    mestith at gmail dot com

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  14. Kindness is treating someone as you would like to be treated. :)

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  15. Kindness means doing something good without being asked and not expecting a reward.

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  16. Kindness is showing your humanity to everyone.

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  17. Kindness is choosing to treat someone how we want to be treated. Thank you! :)

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  18. Helping someone in need and treating people with respect.

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  19. Being nice without expecting something in return.

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  20. Kindness is being thoughtful, taking others' feelings into account before we act, and doing nice things for others without the expectation of anything in return. It's a way of life.

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  21. kindness means helping someone in need.
    erma2167@sbcglobal.net

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  22. Kindness is being selfless and treating people the way you want to be treated. Thanks!

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  23. Doing something for the better of someone else, expecting nothing in return, and often anonymously.

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  24. Kindness means treating others nicely and not intentionally hurting someone's feelings and making them smile instead

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  25. Kindness is putting my own self-needs aside sometimes to help others. To inconvenience myself if a friend needs a hand. To treat others how I want to be treated. It's the easiest thing to do and the hardest thing to get people to do.

    cc_clubbs [at] yahoo [dot] com

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  26. Helping others out when its no benefit for you.

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  27. Kindness means helping someone else out without
    expecting anything back in return

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  28. Helping someone or just being kind to someone without expecting anything in return.

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  29. Kindness means being nice without expecting anything in return.

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  30. Kindness is offering a helping hand and support to someone.

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  31. To me, Kindness means going out of your way to help people, treating people the way you want to be treated.
    oddball2003 at hotmail dot com

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  32. Kindness is the world to me. Sometimes I'm having a bad day and someone will do the littlest kind thing and that just brightens everything :)

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  33. One of the things that kindness means is taking the time to do something for others, just because it will help them out.

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  34. Kindness means helping other people, and being there for them.

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  35. someone doing something for someone else for no reason.

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