The Greatest Showman

   Right now rain is pouring down and it is cold and very snowy outside. Trees have marshmallow tops. My little section of the world is having a snow/ice day (there is no school for all children due to safety concerns) and icicles are forming everywhere. Yesterday there was some moments that felt slightly blizzard like and the children and I went outside for a walk. The snow whipped our faces and we were thankful for sheltered sections of the walk where there were trees on either side. The children reminded me of otters. They threw themselves on snow bank after snow bank and slid down. They were constantly putting their faces in the snow and licking it up. They were enjoying every second of being outside in it. True enjoyment is pure goodness.

 Today we have been quite cold in the house but we turned on the oven and a birthday cake was made, I turned up our thermostat, and now lemon tarts are being made and I can feel that the house is much warmer. That changes everything from miserable and shivery to cozy and wonderful. We also did a big house clean up and that helps my mental state immensely. If you have never stopped to ask yourself how your mental state is when your house or bedroom is clean...take time to do that. It is a good thing to know about yourself I think.

  How is your January progressing? Have you gone to see the movie 'The Greatest Showman'? If you have not, well, it is movie that should be seen, AND should be seen in a theater. Here on Tuesdays there is a cheap night every week and so I went one Tuesday and sent my husband and two older children the next Tuesday. They came home glowing and I could tell the movie had done for them what it did for me. This movie is full of music that fills your soul full and one of the lines of one of the songs is ~ a million dreams is all it's gonna take ~ I have been thinking about that since watching the movie.

Are you a dreamer?

  There are those who are more prone to dreaming big in life and brimming with positivity about those dreams. Then there are those who are more prone to feeling overwhelmed and realistic in regards to the said dreams. I came away from that movie realizing I used to be more of a dreamer and as life has gone on I have become more of the overwhelmed realistic person but my husband has never stopped dreaming. Often I have felt more negative about that then was ever necessary. This movie reminded me that there is so much power in dreaming and that dreaming adds so many elements of hope and courage to our world. I came home begging my husband to go to the movie. Every time I talked to him about it I teared up because I saw him in the main character and I saw the value in it like I hadn't in a very long time. He didn't seem to want to go at first and I felt sad he wasn't going to get to experience it all, and then he went.

  Dreaming is AMAZING! Dreaming takes time and consistency and vision! Dreaming is letting go of the reality of what is happening in the here and now and going beyond, seeing what is not here yet and going forth to make it happen. My husband is a walking testimony to dreaming big impossible dreams but yet working so hard even in the impossibility and seeing them become possible and that is what this movie is partially about.

  I am so thankful I am married to a dreamer and I hope this year I can encourage him and support him in his dreams more than ever before. In my next post I am going to write about one of my bigger dreams that seems impossible. I have previously written about dreaming and you can read about it if you'd like ~ http://soulshinethrough.blogspot.ca/2015/07/dreamin.html

Have a great weekend ~ because it is here already!

Love Tansy