AUTHOR: Monica Lee TITLE: Daring and Ambitious DATE: 9:09 AM ----- BODY:

I like to two Illustration Friday topics of the last two weeks. “Daring” and “Ambition”. Do I detect a theme? Daring, the word stuck with me all day yesterday when I read it. I have been daring myself to change my thinking this spring/year. And let me say it is hard! My lesson this year is “you receive directly what you believe”. I have always thought I was a gal with dreams and AMBITION. But I have been more in tune with my inner voice and the thoughts that travel through my head. I guess when you spend time on art you quiet yourself and really hear what is going on in there! I have been shocked at my dismal image of my future. I fell like I have dealt with my past pretty well but now on to the future! And the future is turning out to be a bit tricky. I feel like God is opening new doors for me in my life I am struggling to step through them and I can’t figure out why. I simply think it is the way I envision myself. Wow, hard to swallow that your limitations might be coming right from the person I am supposed to love-ME! So what is the next step? I have been writing notes to myself posting them up…keeping my journal, quieting myself each day. Yesterday after a frustrating day that I created in my own mind by dwelling on negative things instead of positive things I finally decided to throw myself down and ask for mercy. That’s right God’s Mercy, an uncomfortable place for an overachiever to be but it has worked miraculously before and sometimes you can be “daring” in a lot of different ways. You can dare to believe for greater things in your life and sometimes you can dare to believe for mercy as you learn life’s lessons.Here is my “daring” illustration…

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