Ask and you shall receive. This, I believe with all my heart. Call it God’s answers to prayers. Call it the Universe conspiring. Call it the power of affirmations. Call it the magic of visualization. Call it coincidence. Call it miracle. Call it whatever you want so long as you can embrace it and let it flow within your own life. It’s powerful and amazing.
In honor of my upcoming 43rd birthday, last week I shared 43 things that I’ve done, learned, bought or changed to make my life better. This week, I’d like to share 43 of my dreams that have come true. 43 experiences that, at some point in my life, I wished for but thought impossible. Yet I still asked, sometimes silently, sometimes in a quiet whisper…and I received.
(In no particular order)
1: I rode a camel in the Egyptian desert.
2: I climbed inside the Great pyramid of Cairo.
3: I swam with a dolphin.
4: I played with a baby lion and a baby tiger in the same day.
5: I danced and sang with Zulus in Johannesburg, South Africa.
6: I watched The Lion King on Broadway.
7: I saw the Eiffel Tower decked with twinkle lights at night.
8: I fed Kangaroos in Australia.
9: I petted a koala.
10: I heard the song of whales while snorkeling in Maui.
11: I married the man of my dreams. (Literally: my husband matches everything I had put on my “perfect guy” list when I was a teenager.)
12: I saw the Niagara Falls not once but twice. (A girlfriend of mine went there when we were in High-school and I remember vividly wishing I could too someday, all the while believing it was impossible).
13: I’ve listened to Vivaldi’s four seasons (my all time favorite piece of classical music) played live in a church in Venice.
14: I ate gelato in Florence on the steps of the most beautiful cathedral I’ve ever seen.
15: I gave birth to a blue eyed baby. I had always been in awe of my grandfather’s blue eyes and secretly wondered what I would have looked like with blue eyes. I now know when I look at my daughter.
16: I live 10 minutes walking distance from the beach. When I was a teenager, I had a lot of friends whose parents were much better off financially than mine were. Not only were their homes much bigger than my little dingy apartment, they also owned secondary residences, most of which where by the ocean. I wanted that so badly. Now I have it!
17: I learned how to fight. When I was 17, my boyfriend beat me up pretty badly. I remember wanting to hit back and being too scared, believing that I would only make things worse so I just took the blows. As my bruised body recovered, I vowed that I would never let that happen to me again. I am now an excellent kickboxer, wrestler and a black belt in jiu jitsu.
18: I fed free roaming monkeys in Japan.
19: I lived in a house with a stream running through the backyard.
20: I bought a car with windows that can be rolled down before you get in.
21: I lived in Los Angeles and visited almost all the touristy spots I had seen in movies growing up.
22: I lived in Germany and saw snow for the first time at age 19.
23: I lived in the south of France.
24: I moved to Hawaii. When I was a little girl, I owned this picture book that mentioned Hawaii, such an intriguing far away land.
25: I went to the top of the Empire State building.
26: I stood on 34th street in New York city.
27: I walked Rome and touched the tracks left by Roman chariots.
28: My side gig in college was to work as the weekend weather girl and l later got my own TV show.
29: I hiked Yosemite National Park.
30: I rode in a limousine.
31: I lived in Beverly Hills on Rodeo Drive for 6 weeks and made the best of my husband needing surgery at Cedars Sinai Hospital 🙂
32: I saw my favorite singer at the time, Francis Cabrel, in concert.
33: I got to show my best friend and her family where I live.
34: After my grandpa died, he came to me in a dream to tell me he was okay.
35: I was invited to sit in the cockpit for an entire flight from Reunion to Mauritius. (That obviously happened before 9/11).
36: I delivered my baby under self hypnosis.
37: I stood by the leaning tower of Pisa.
38: I was featured on the cover of four magazines.
39: I visited all 5 villages of Cinque Terre, Italy.
40: I traveled first class.
41: I have a successful happy marriage.
42: I own a house with 2 bathrooms, a laundry room, a lanai, a small yard and a carport (all things I wanted in a home.)
43: I bought an investment property and became a landlady. (Which may well be one of the bigger miracles on this list!).
I’m gonna be 43 in a couple of weeks; my life has been and still is amazing. I’m not saying this to brag. It just seems right to take a moment and feel gratitude for all the good that I’ve been blessed with. I’m also hoping to serve as an inspiring example, to show what’s possible when we let ourselves believe. We don’t have to know how it’s going to happen. We just have to ask and seek and knock and that’s what I’ll continue to do.
This week I’m being interviewed to air on one of my favorite podcasts. This year, I’m going to a conference organized by a homeschool mentor. Two things that have been on my bucket list for a few years.
Who knows… Maybe next year, I’ll finally get to meet Tom Cruise. 🙂
Ask and you shall receive
Seek and you shall find
Knock and it shall be opened on to you
Matthew 7.7
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