..... make your MARK

Yesterday I posted on Facebook  "go make your mark, go out and do something extraordinary!"  If you did it.... did you get that funny feeling in your tummy? A little fear, a little excitement setting in... That's LIFE... that's the feeling you get when you know your LIVING!!! So if you did it.... GOOD JOB! If you didn't, try it today.... Go out and make your MARK, step out of your comfort zone and do something extraordinary!

I don't know if you could call mine extraordinary.... but you could say it was extra - ordinary.  And I defiantly had butterflies in my stomach and by the time I was done I had excitement, relief and joy.  I stepped out of my comfort zone and approached someone I have wanted to approach for some time.  Have you ever mis-judged someone? Have you ever viewed someone and thought "yep, I know the type or I know the personality or I've _____________ (you fill in the blank)

The old Jen did that A LOT! I formed my opinion about someone and that was that, people don't change. Which is WHY I have such a hard time believing why people have embraced the new Jen?  If I couldn't except the fact that people can change..... then why would people except that I could change?
Thank goodness the world is not full of the "old Jen's"! 

I learned today that it takes an act of courage to confront, be willing to listen and be open to peoples ideas and values. After all that is what shapes them.
I'm so glad I took that step today because today I formed a new..... deeper friendship, that I know will last a very long time.

I had some responses to my post and I just wanted to acknowledge one really extraordinary one..... Kim Parnell, who is a dear friend of my brother and sister-in-laws. Kim posted that she walked with a cane with the help of a friend.  WOW! It really moved me..... tears in the eyes moved me.  You see Kim has MS and just a year ago she was a high functioning nurse living with MS, when suddenly that all changed and she was in the hospital fighting for her life. I remember this time because I was praying for a miracle for her life. Today she is a living example of LIFE, COURAGE, STRENGTH and BEAUTY. You are Amazing Kim and people are WATCHING you and your desire to LIVE!

Now everybody go out and MAKE YOUR MARK!!!

~JEN