a Sower of Dreams—just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.

If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place. —RAINER MARIA RILKE

Most of the time we wait much longer for a dream to manifest itself in our lives than we ever imagined we would have to at its conception.

we pray for worldly success when what we really long for is a sense of authentic accomplishment;

“The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver,” writer Madeleine L’Engle tells us in Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art. “I believe that each work of art,

Ask and be specific. Today, why not ask for the creative and physical energy you’ll need, not just to survive the holiday season, but to enjoy

If I do not endow my life and my work with meaning, no one will ever be able to do it for me.

Maybe one of these days I’ll be able to give myself a gold star for being ordinary, and maybe one of these days I’ll give myself a gold star for being extraordinary—for persisting. And maybe one day I won’t need to have a star at all. —SUE BENDER I haven’t yet gotten to the point where I don’t need gold stars: gleaming, golden, five-pointed proof t

Without realizing it consciously, I had been changing within, moving away from what others expected of me and toward my own true identity.