Prevailing Against All Odds To Dream

 
 
 
 

I know what it takes for Robert Herjavec to so vulnerably share this post as I also have a father who regularly spends time in jail due to his mental instability.  (The system is clearly broken; he should be in a psychological health facility but is so intelligent that he outsmarts and outmaneuvers them.)  I now pray for my father as I forgave him 20+ years ago for all of the hurts that he caused my family.  When I did so, I became free.

Rather than live in the past as a victim, I chose, a long time ago, to be accountable for my own happiness and future.

The reason that I choose to be vulnerable and share this today is that I know by outward appearances I seem to have it all — a loving husband, wonderful career; in general, a fantastic life.  However, there was a time in my 20’s when I didn’t have two nickels to rub together and survived on boiled potatoes and carrots.

I, like Robert, am a testimony that hard work, tenacity and a servant leader mindset prevail. God has blessed me beyond any expectations that I had for my future.   We are not solely the products of our genetics but can become anything we are determined to be IF we put our minds to it.

I aspire and choose to continue to dream a bigger dream.  That is why my word for 2019 is “DREAM!”  What’s yours?

Hope deferred makes the heart sick;
but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life.
— Proverbs 13:12 NLT

— Dawn F. Landry

 
 
 

 

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