My friend is amazing and tireless. She is baking cookies and selling them to build water wells. She didn't think she could do it.
I always thought I could "encourage," like the Bible talks about, the kind of words that can put people back on on their feet so-to-speak. I had no idea that a few positive words and a phone call later a never ending shower of cookies hit the planet. Green Bay could quite easily be enveloped.
It isn't the cookies or the water that has really changed me through this madness, though you would think that would, it is a lesson about our perceptions of life and potential that has changed me.
A perception like "all I can do is bake" is so limiting...all it took was someone to say "that is perfect, you can bake!" and that perception went from limiting to infinite possibilities.
We all need a cheerleader sometimes. It is difficult to change your perception if you are surrounded by people who say "can't" a lot or, for that matter, people who are good intentioned and are trying to protect you from getting hurt.
If the thing you are thinking of or attempting can only fail, if that is the worst possible outcome (not death, foreclosure, disease...) then nothing should hold you back from giving it a try, no matter how wacky the pairing might be or how scared you might me. I doubt the African people who drink this water will think about cookies...but I know they will love a closer well; all because one girl followed a stirring in her spirit.
A couple other things to latch onto:
- if it is stirring in you then you will probably be given the resources to do it
- talk talk talk about your thoughts, no matter how scary or strange they might seem to you, choose wisely though, not everyone is open to brainstorming
- don't hold fast to the first version of the idea in your head
- be wise about spending any money, you don't want to resent the project when it is done
