{"id":2281,"date":"2013-05-23T12:15:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T17:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2013-05-23T12:15:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T17:15:18","slug":"are-you-choosing-to-live-in-fear-or-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/are-you-choosing-to-live-in-fear-or-in-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Choosing to Live in Fear or In-Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">by Gladys Diaz<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/HDSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Pencil-Shavings-Heart_PDP_ID-10019995.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2282 aligncenter\" alt=\"Pencil Shavings-Heart_PDP_ID-10019995\" src=\"http:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/HDSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Pencil-Shavings-Heart_PDP_ID-10019995.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>&#8220;I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.\u201d <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta <\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Every once in a while, you create something that not only inspires you, but you hope will inspire others.\u00a0 When I was invited to write an Inspiration for the Inspire Me Today website, I was asked to think about what I would say if I had to leave a message to the world in 500 words or less! I thought to myself, <i>\u201cI can do this! I have so much to share!\u201d <\/i>Well, I must have written <i>at least <\/i>5 different drafts and several revisions of each one!\u00a0 Okay\u2026 Maybe this wasn\u2019t as easy a writing task as I\u2019d thought.<\/p>\n<p>After all, this was going to go down in history\u00a0(or at least in an online archive, <em>somewhere<\/em>) as <b><i>my message <\/i><\/b>to the world.<\/p>\n<p><b>Just how was I supposed to select <i>one message<\/i> that captured my biggest lesson, my deepest beliefs, and the difference I want to make for people <i>in 500 words or less<\/i>?\u00a0 What could I say?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Well, after writing and revising <i>several<\/i> drafts, I finally hit \u201cSubmit\u201d and sent in my Inspiration.\u00a0 The article was accepted and published on May 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, and I received wonderful feedback about it.\u00a0 Then, yesterday, I received a wonderful surprise!\u00a0 They liked my article so much, they chose to share it on the Care2.com, which has over 22,000,000 subscribers!\u00a0 Over 22,000,000 lives may be touched my message!<\/p>\n<p>Are there other messages I\u2019d like to leave behind \u2013 about the power of love, the freedom of forgiveness, the transformational practice of gratitude, the gift of hope, the joy that it is to live a life where we have the power to create our own miracles, and <i>so many more messages<\/i> I have bubbling inside of me just waiting to be shared with the world?\u00a0\u00a0 Absolutely!<\/p>\n<p>But, for now, <b><i>this<\/i><\/b> is my message \u2013 my Inspiration \u2013 and I share it with all of my love, from my heart to yours.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/14DgD6f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cAre You Choosing Fear Over Love?\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d really like to express my heartfelt thanks to Gail Lynne Goodwin and her team \u2013 especially Kristan Sartor \u2013 for, not only allowing me to share my Inspiration with the world, but for also helping me to promote the <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartachetoheartsdesires.com\/?ap_id=heartsdesireintl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">From Heartache to Your Heart\u2019s Desires<\/span><\/a><\/span> telesummit so that more people can join the thousands already participating and allowing the messages of love, healing, forgiveness, hope, and transformation to help them go from heartache to experiencing the life and loved their hearts desire!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to experience the messages of 27 of the leading experts in dating, relationships, healing, and transformation, you can sign up <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartachetoheartsdesires.com\/?ap_id=heartsdesireintl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Questions? Comments?\u00a0 Let us know!\u00a0 We love hearing from you!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedigitalphotos.net\/images\/Valentines_Day_g135-Pensil_Heart_p19995.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FreeDigitalPhotos.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Gladys Diaz \u00a0 &#8220;I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.\u201d ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta &nbsp; Every once in a while, you create something that not only inspires you, but you hope will inspire others.\u00a0 When I was invited to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,7,8,11,13,16,17,22],"tags":[50,52,54,56,57,59,61,68,70,87,105],"class_list":["post-2281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakups","category-dating-2","category-forgiveness-2","category-gratitude-2","category-heartache","category-intimacy-2","category-love-2","category-marriage","category-relationship-advice","tag-empowerment","tag-forgiveness","tag-gratitude","tag-happiness","tag-hearts-desire-international","tag-hope","tag-inspiration","tag-love","tag-marriage-2","tag-relationship-advice-2","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}