heather

i love to imagine and dream.i am a dreamer and always have been.i believe that everyone has some good in them and that you should never give up on someone.i believe that nothing is impossible with god.and i believe he has given us the dreams and desires we have inside each one of us for a reason.i believe god has a purpose for every human being if they will only come to him and ask.everyone has some beauty inside of them.something that makes them unique and set apart from everyone else.i love to watch snow fall.it mesmerizes and intriques me.give me a comfy chair,a cozy blanket,a mug of hot cocoa,a good book,some nat king cole or ella playing softly in the background,and a window to sit and watch snow fall and i could find pure contentment.i love to watch lightning.i'm really good at hula hooping.i love to wake up in the middle of the night and watch the raccoons eat the cat food.i love the smell of a heater when you turn it on for the first time each winter.i love it when jimmy stewart says the line "in this world you can either be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.for years i was smart.i recommmend pleasant." i love to read and learn unusual and interesting words in a dictionary.words like bamboozled and lackadaisical make me giggle.i love a good thesaurus.i love to draw by candlelight.i love to climb things.i love to talk into box fans.i love the way marbles sound on a wood floor.i love to throw styrofoam cups into a fire.i love to dance...by myself...in my room...with the door closed.i love to listen to people with accents speak.i love to sit on the beach at sunset and watch the waves roll in to meet me.it makes me feel very small and insignificant...in a good humbling sort of way.i love to play in the surf.i love to eat cereal out of a cup.i love to hold a mug with both hands so it keeps me warm.i love how if i lay on the grass in my backyard i can look up at the sky and the trees form a perfect ring around a patch of sky.framing the beauty of the stars and night.i love to wait for the first star to appear and close my eyes and make a wish on it.i love to pretend with aiden.i love how when you pretend and imagine with a child life feels full of magic...it sparkles.i love to watch a car window defog.i love how i can call lauren and know i can always count on her to answer the phone...hey you! and i can always count on roth to remember 'flowers for a friend'.i love how when you cross the buckman bridge at sunset the sky looks like something out of a dream.and the expanse of sky is filled with the most elaborate and extravagant colors which i'm sure you could never find in any book.i love how i'll do something silly and aiden will tilt his head and look at me and smile and with a sigh of affection say "oh mommy" and then throw his arms around my neck.i love how your skin feels after you have been in salt water.a mixture of salt,sand,and sea.i love to lay on the grass and watch clouds when they're moving quickly.i love coming down the stairs on christmas morning.the room is filled with smiles and the smell of wonderful things like cinnamon sticks and apple cider.and you feel filled with wonder and joy.i love the smell of orange groves and pine trees.i love to listen to my grandfather read.i love to watch fireflies light up.i love the way people's faces look in the glow of a bonfire.i love to listen to my parents sing together.i love quirky witty people.i love chocolate milk and jones cream soda(not together of course).i love to hear stories.i love to listen to rain fall when i am lying in bed at night.i love how sometimes at night we more freely will allow ourselves to dream,think,wish and hope.i love how in those wee small hours of the night our feelings become illuminated and intensify with each thought or memory.i love how sometimes you will hear a song or see something and it will remind you of a time,a place or a person and that memory will make you feel filled with warmth and love and you will find yourself suddenly smiling.i think that in life you have to learn to take the good wth the bad and make the most of it.i think that if people would just focus on the things they have instead of dwelling on that which they don't have then they could truly find happiness and contentment in life.happiness depends on circumstances but god offers us joy which may come in spite of circumstances.that is because god,not the circumstances around you or the limitaions you perceive,is the source of your joy.our circumstances define us by 'what' we are but god defines us by 'who' we are.i've come to understand that we can learn more from our mistakes than from our successes in life.everything happens for a reason.and god can bring about something wonderful from the awful,painful things that we go through in life.they all serve a greater purpose and sometimes we are blessed,to later on in life,have a chance to see what that purpose is. "if we aren't different,there is no difference."