How do i do it?

how do i get to where i want to be?

or is it about being where i am at now?

i just want to be great.

Father, hear me please.

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I work and live in a town that is made up of romantic and dream like historic buildings. Buildings that make you feel as if you were in a movie, where anything and everything is possible.

I often see couples walking about hand in hand, sitting on benches embraced so beautifully as if no one else could see them, giving sweet glances to each other as they trace their hands in and out of the crowds….and its intriguing. I often wonder to myself…. Are they soul mates? Am i witnessing a miracle? Am i possibly standing in the midst of beauty?

Soul Mates.

We hear the word, but does it actually exist? Is there such a phenomenon of one soul being perfectly made for another? Two souls made to be as one?

I’d like to believe so.

The truth is i am a firm believer in it and will settle for nothing less. But the world likes to argue with me otherwise, like so many of us. And for a long time i lost sight of what i had always wish, hoped, dreamed and prayed for… My very own soul mate.

I think where a lot of us go wrong in the whole soul mate idea, is that we start off thinking it isnt possible, it will never happen, or at least it will never happen to us…. and we settle. Time and time again we forget that we are created for nothing but the best and to have nothing less then what God has perfectly designed for us. Even a soul mate.

Why is it always so easy for us to sell ourselves short of what we are ordained and ment for? Which is God’s perfect plan for our lives. A plan that is hardly ever easy but somehow is more rewarding and fulfilling then anything we could ever imagine.

So why should we settle?

Why should we allow the great to pass us by?

We shouldnt and we dont have too.

When i was 14 years old i created this list of every quality i ever wanted (up to that point) of my soul mate. Through the years i have revised and added and taken things off, but then i realized that…the original list i wrote was from a heart without settle, it was made from a heart of hope that this person, while being totally and completely made up and beyond what any one person could amount to…. did actually exist. I had been settling for the easy and the comfortable yet i was created for the great and the great was created for me. What i spent the past few years trying to rethink and revise was really what God had intended for me in the first place. The idea of a soul mate that was “beyond me and beyond understanding” that i thought was too much and not realistic, was actually the right thing for me in the first place . As we get older we somehow fall into the thinking that we have to be practical and throw out all the dreams and hopes of something almost magical, because the “real world” tells us its not real, its not a possibility, its not for us….. and we settle.

God is too mighty and too big of a God for us to settle with little, he made our hearts and minds and souls for the big picture, bigger then even our imagination allows.

We were made to dream and hope and pray for things “beyond us and beyond understanding”. To dream big dreams and to hope and live for moments that are bigger then us. Moments that seem too good to be true. Moments and things like: rocks at the window in the middle of the night, kissing in the rain, conversations that last till the wee hours of the morning, heart aching connection that makes you feel alive, butterflies in your stomach,  a best friend, someone that gets you and understands you, someone that inspires you and makes you want to be better, a love that surpasses understanding, a soul mate.  (a man that loves God more then me, with strong hands, a heart of gold and a soul so beautiful you can hardly breathe.) – ‘Katherine’s Soul Mate List / age 14.’

Why should we not all have the white knight and the damsel? Why should we settle for the cheap novel when we can have the epic fairy tale? Why should we allow anything less then what we have always dreamed of?

Why should we not have the best love story ever written?

Why should we settle for anything less then our Soul Mate?

i wont.