Wishes

"A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep..." How can you not like that lyric from Disney? It is amazing to think throughout our lives, people are constantly telling us, make a wish... here on this birthday candle, on this shooting star, this dandelion puff, or this lucky penny cast into a well. It's so hard when we desperately want something so badly we can taste it and Providence simply says, "No." We feel let down, crushed, deflated, angry, sad, you can really fill in the blank here but, what if instead, we felt gratitude in having the thought, the possibility, the very audacity to lay it out there and say it out loud? We make wishes all the time, we wish for wealth, love, fame, good things, they are like fleeting whispers sometimes but, it is the ones we proclaim loudly that grab our hearts and have us begging to let us get our way this time, just this once, let me have a win. The courage of a wish is the moment you release it and no longer hold it in your hand, you relinquish control and just let it go... it's then, when your wish becomes an act of faith. Acts of faith are never answered in the ways we can expect and in that, there is the gratitude.