A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes

Here is a little excerpt from a chapter in my upcoming book A Glass Half Full Titled "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes." In this chapter I share how pursuing your passions and using your gifts is essential to experiencing that glass half full kind of joy that God wants us to experience! Those passions were placed in our hearts for a reason and so we can't neglect them (as I once did)! We have to pursue them if we want to live out our full potential and not lose our spark! Enjoy this little glimpse of my new book and stay tuned for an official release date in mid to late 2022!

"Growing up, I fell in love with writing and because I did, I told myself that I would never stop. But then, something happened. I got older and life got harder. By the age of 18 I was married to my high school sweetheart and we were as in love as we were broke and I just didn't feel that I had time for something as frivolous as writing poems or stories. “It is time to grow up and face the real world”, I thought. So, for three entire years I stopped writing and slowly I felt depression sink in. I realized overtime that something inside me was missing but I just kept suppressing the feeling because really, who has the time to write? Despite all of the good in my life at the time, I felt an emptiness inside of me that I can't even really explain. This feeling or emptiness lingered, that is until one day on a whim when I decided to start a blog. Honestly at the time, I didn't think anyone would read it and for a while, no one really did. But I didn't feel that it really mattered because I was writing to please others. I was writing for me and I can't even begin to tell you how happy it made me feel. I realized through this experience that the moment we stop using our gifts and pursuing our passions something on the inside of us dies. So, we can't let that happen."

~A Glass Half Full