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Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

Vanessa Rae — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:49:24 -0000

The day i told myself that just because I'm not famous, I'm not rich, I've yet to finish college, I stutter, I'm in debt, I change my major every semester, I'm short and I haven't done anything so called "remarkable", does not mean that i do not matter. I AM a loving wife and mother, a loyal friend, someone who loves to learn, an aspiring artist and writer, and I try my best to live each day to my fullest potential, i try me best to follow my heart. My most significant beginning... the days I rise and tell myself that I (underlined at least ten times) am more than enough.

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

Janet — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:56:05 -0000

Getting into comedy improv. I was taking a continuing educational drama class and a classmate suggested I try improv. I did, fell in love with what it did to me as a person -- decreasing my shyness and invisibility, enabling me to speak with more confidence and adlib when I met new people.

The love affair lasted 8 years and I met friends I still have.

I've gotten away from it of late. I need to get back to it.

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

Karen — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:44:59 -0000

Stacey, you are and have always been, the kindest, most thoughtful and optimistic person I have ever known. You always have a smile. You ALWAYS cared about me and my family. Even when you were going thru the worst, you lived life as fully as you were able to every single day. You deserved and received a miracle. You inspire me. I am very thankful you are my friend.

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

Jane — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:38:44 -0000

Not getting my security clearance and subsequently losing a job. Now I work as designer at an architecture/engineering firm, for the nicest boss I've ever had. Previously I worked for the government, supporting an industry that has leveled the Navajos (and others) because of uranium mining. Now I enjoy my day and can sleep at night. It was just the push that I needed.

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

C Martin — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:33:44 -0000

Without a doubt, our art collection.

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

Stacey — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:11:57 -0000

November 2007. The doctors at Mayo Clinic had been treating an unknown virus that attacked my autoimmune system for over a year and a half. The doctors all came into my treatment room that morning and stated that they could not explain it, but the virus was completely gone. I was given a second chance at life again! What a miracle!
Over that year and a half, I had lost my job, my fiance, the ability to attend events with my daughter and my self esteem. Now, 7 months later, I have a stronger faith in God, my health, a great family life and a new outlook on life! I realize that everything happens for a reason even though we may never understand what that reason is. My new motto is, "Who ever said that sunshine brings happiness, has never danced in the rain!"

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

Pam — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:36:06 -0000

My most significant beginning was the birth of my daughter. I had insisted on finding a birth center that allowed water birth and even though it was far away from where we lived, everything went perfectly. This amazing child was born as I wished. The whole first year of her life I felt like a powerful goddess. Things were stressful with her fatehr but I was alone with her for hours and days on end and it was really a time that was magical for me. Serving this infant was so fulfilling. Everything I gave her was returned to me many times over.

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

C.S. - Composed Lovely — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:05:09 -0000

My most significant beginning was 22 years ago. At the age of 28 I followed my heart's desire to live in Colorado. Without consulting anyone I gave notice on my job and apartment, and then much to my family's surprise, I informed them that I was moving over 1100 miles away to Denver, Colorado. Within 30 days I left the security of my lifelong hometown and everything that was familiar to me, to relocate (without a job) to an unfamiliar city where I knew only 1 couple - Jack & Jill. This beginning gave me the chance to discover who I really was. I have never looked backed, and had I not done this, I would never have met my wonderful husband of 14 years and have the great life that I do!

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

Connie — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:18:22 -0000

My most spiritual and humbling and joyous beginning when I gave birth to my first daughter, the first of my three children, 30 years ago. Each succedent child's birth, another daughter and then a son, were also miraculous beginnings, since each child is so decidedly different from the get-go. I never looked forward to a big wedding but I always wanted a family and I got more than I could handle sometimes. Kids are a gift that keeps on giving to be trite; trite but true.

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

Stephanie — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:10:19 -0000

having a child

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

C Martin — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:01:49 -0000

When I wrote to my father and said that for our relationship to continue and for me to support him in addressing his alcholism he had to be accountable for his (some very terrible) actions. He chose to never respond. The past ceased to be relevant, the imprints of abuse disappeared and I was free to begin my life as I defined it. I have never looked back (except to smile).

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

Beth C. — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:27:14 -0000

The beginning of my current job was a painful transition from a comfortable position into something totally outside of my box. My boss kept telling me I needed to let go of the old to move on to the new, but I was so afraid that they were just telling me to let go so they could then let me go. The change in positions has been one of the best things that could have happened to me to date. I'm now doing something that allows me to be appreciated for having vision, smarts and a love of challenging the old assumptions about how things should be done. I wish I hadn't felt so scared and that I would have let go to relax into the change faster.

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

braziliana — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:48:17 -0000

Becoming a Mother was a significant beginning for me.

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

Scott — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:14:45 -0000

I asked my love what her definition of passion was, she said, "the word 'yes'". I knew I had to marry her. And I did.

Februrary 19, 2004: the beginning of our son.

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

Jacquie — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:28:14 -0000

The birth of my daughter fifteen years ago began a journey of discovery about myself; who I really am and what I truly believe in. Being a mother is a beautiful, messy, complex ride...and it is not until I began this trip did I really understand all of the things I believe in, fight for, and protect. Knowing ourselves as mothers is an unfolding process so very different than when we just ourselves...

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

kerrymac — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:32:13 -0000

He walked up to me and said a simple "hello". I was 15 in red knee high socks, navy Tabi skirt and a peajacket...he looked tall and gorgeous. I was a minor niner (grade 9) and he was in grade 12. I completley lost it, I was speechless, smile-less too, I simply ran away. I cried all the way home on the school bus feeling so ridiculous! Luckily he tried again because we've been basically together ever since. www.snickerdoodles.typepad.com

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

katie — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:00:45 -0000

the marriage to my husband opened the door to having children who are in spite of the eventual break up of a marriage due to addiction have been my most significant beginnings. i have found my strength, my power in being a parent/ role model to young women and helping them to unlock to door to their own infinite power.

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

carla morales — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:41:03 -0000

my first time traveling abroad in my early twenties...my love of art, architecture and culture was born...realizing there's so much to learn and so much to see...it was a momentous and delicious beginning...

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

Candace — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:15:33 -0000

My most significant beginings have been coming closer to Christ as an adult and meeting my best friend. Little did I know at 11 that I would be frends with her to this day. My walk in christ has been a turbulent one, but its something I look forward to everyday.

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

Stephanie — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:03:22 -0000

The first time I met my dear friend Jen it was a single handshake that sealed the deal. Firm, strong, sincere, 100% present and not shrinking back. There was a mutual recognition: "Wow! Nice handshake!" Not like those limpy, dead fish handshakes so many girls give each other (we were 19 at the time) -- non-committal, wimpy, insecure. THIS was an introduction, a full-frontal meeting of kindred spirits. In the years since, at times when our inner sparks have seemed to flicker and fade in the ups and downs of life, we have many times nurtured each other back to that center where our truest selves live. I have learned with Jen that sometimes friendship is trusting someone else to see you when you can't see yourself.

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

RecollectedStephanie — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:28:02 -0000

The significant beginnings have been: my first journal to write in, given to me by parents who thought themselves to be supplying a romantic teenager with something interesting, but who were in reality planting seeds in the deepest part of my being; the first time my husband and I went on a walk together, in my (new) neighborhood, and he didn't let on that he knew I'd gotten us lost; and the day someone handed back to me my own crying infant and she stopped crying as if someone had switched her to "off" - and I thought with a shock, "Oh...! I'M the mom." All my other beginnings pale in comparison with those three.

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

Andrew — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:21:08 -0000

And then there was the "lipstick fight"...

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

Karryn Ransom — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:02:18 -0000

What you notice at first IS what matters, even if you can't explain it. In the beginning, this man had a quiet comfort to him, a strength in his presence. Something I couldn't articulate FELT right, but there were so many logical reasons why he WASN'T right for me. I talked myself out of pursuing these feelings around him. It took a long time for me to surrender my "reasons" and listen to my heart. Yes, we're profoundly different, and yes we argue about everything, but so what? My soul knew its mate before I did.

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

Karryn Ransom — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:48:08 -0000

Guylaine - thank you for sharing such a moving story. Blessings to you.

Re: What has been your most significant beginning?

Krystl — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:45:49 -0000

Moving to NYC for my freshman year of college. My life, my mind, my experience expanded exponentially - and I met my husband almost immediately - he lived across the hall in my dorm. This new place felt immediately right to me - after living in so many different places in my early years, I felt I had come home at last. And I have lived here ever since. The city has shaped who I am.