When you finally start believing that change is possible….

Dear Dr. Jack,

Today, my son and his fiancé were going to Christmas in the country, bigggggg craft show at the fairgrounds.   They asked if I wanted to go.  We walked around and enjoyed it.   All good.  So we spot this booth where the man and his wife are selling sterling silver rings.   Included in the cost was that he would put your name on them. I walked around the show and then went back.  I asked him would he put anything on the ring, and he said, “Yes.”
     I thought a lot about the things you have said the last few days, and the changes I am hoping my life will have…..  I thought about what you keep telling me about believing in myself and this process.   I thought you might like to see what I picked…… A daily reminder where I see it all time….

Dear Chris,

I love this. Thanks for sharing. You are now believing in yourself. There is no going back!!!!

Dr. Jack

I had given a lot of thought this week to conversations Dr. Jack and I had.   I realized that he kept trying to tell me that I had to take all the negative stuff that happened to me, and start to see it not as that but as a building block of the new way I was going to become.  Was that easy?  Absolutely………………………………….. NOT.   But I still kept thinking about it.

My son, his sweet fiancé and I had  gone to Christmas in the Country at the Hamburg Fairgrounds.   We walked around and stopped to eat.  I had a water because I had already eaten my lunch at home.  I bought my granddog some treats and we laughed that all I purchased was stuff for the dog.

Then we walked by this booth run by an older couple.  They were very nice and I stopped to talk.   They had these sterling silver rings that they would stamp with your name on them.  I told her I might be back and the longer we walked around, the more I thought about that booth.   I kept thinking about Dr. Jack and I talking about how I needed to let the past go and fully commit to myself, to my goals.   I went back and asked them if they could stamp the ring any way I wanted.

I tried a few on and I told the lady that I wanted her to stamp it with “Believe” and two hearts on it.  She grabbed my hand and patted it and smiled at me.  She handed the note to her husband of what I wanted and he flashed me this huge smile.   She stamped the ring and I put it on.  I had overestimated my size some, so I wore it on my middle finger.

I wear it every single day.   The ‘Believe” is always facing me so that when I look down at my hands, I see it.   I remember that if there is one thing I have to believe in, it is me.     Now you understand why I put the caption on my blog.

You can’t give up….. you have to believe that there IS an answer for you.  You have to keep searching and searching and searching for it until you find it.   My best friend Mark was mine, and then it was Dr. Jack.   I believe everything Dr. Jack has told me.    And most important I believe in myself being able to achieve this.   Find your “Believe.”   And never give up on finding it.