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was inspired by the amazing rosie hardy with this writing. hope you will be too.

love always,

ira

ps: hope you are all doing great and that silence means "busy fulfilling dreams!" :)

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Meet my Dream-Giver

It's 10pm on March the 17th--- at least from where I am, which is the beautiful island of Bermuda.  I have promised my dear friend Ira that I would write here, but the busyness of the past months have kept me from doing that until now.  Also, I didn't know what dreams to share as I feel like I am currently living in one.  I also feel like my first entry should define how my participation in this blog will be so I kept thinking and thinking what I want to write about.  I was reminded, however, that the only thing that really matters is that I write from my heart.

Let me begin by saying that every dream is great, as long as it points back to the Dream-Giver.  Ultimately, the dreams we have should be the desires that God has placed in our hearts, which is connected to our purpose, and the manifestation of which brings glory to Him. 

I have many goals that I hope to eventually write about and share to you, but today I want to tell you about my biggest dream:

I want to lead people to worship God in Spirit and in truth, to usher them in the presence of God where every problem and concern dissipate because of the Love available to them.

Sounds too spiritual, hey? I know. What can I do, I am a spiritual being, so please oblige me. :-)

I remember, at the age of 6, I started singing. Since then, I've always had a song in my heart. I'm not your usual singer though.  I've never sung in public until I joined my previous church's worship team in the year 2000.  I never joined school contests, nor have I ever felt that I was a singer.  The song of my heart has always echoed louder than the song of my lips.  And I vow that it will remain that way.

I know worship is a lifestyle, but let me just refer to my singing as worship, as I feel it brings it more justice. In worshiping God, I feel like I am fulfilling His higher calling to love.

I have gone to hell and back just to protect this dream that God has placed in me.  It has consumed me in ways that just leave me broken and on my knees. It's a passion I can't understand with my limited mind, but my heart keeps shouting over and over again.  I can't even explain why I want to do it. I have searched every area of my heart to check whether I want to do it just to be recognized and esteemed, and the answer is no.  That would be too icky and yucky.

I have felt every opposition and persecution to give my dream up, to take the easy way out. I have heard lies upon lies and lived through difficult times just because I wouldn't let my dream go.  I guess this is the first point I want to drive at when dreaming ---- Never let your dream go.  Do not adjust your dreams to your circumstances. If God has placed it in your heart, be assured that He will make it happen. Protect your dream. Focus on the vision. People will be against you, most will try to persuade you to give it up. Don't let them. Your dream is between you and God. Do not seek to be understood, nor to be praised for what you want to do. Let your assurance be God and nothing or no one else.

And always remember, God is not just the Dream-Giver, He is also the Dream-Maker.  Watch and see your dreams unfold into reality.

Hugs,

Lei

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january

I know it's a bit late for January but I wanted to look back at the past month so that I can tell what I needed to do now to get where I want to go. Sharing to you my goals as well.

  Photography

  To be a professional photographer, I need to work out on my portfolio. So I planned to have collaboration shoots with makeup artist and stylist aspirers and models as well, and for this month, the three were all in my friend Nikki. I also invested on a sturdy lens so that I can capture more with my focus this year which is portraiture.

  Blog

  I wanted to build up traffic on IRATRAVELS, so I planned to post every week and build the "books, blogs, and music" part of the blog, but as you can see I haven't done any reviews yet! :D Now I plan to either minimize my goal or just really schedule writing it.

Also, I've launched WEDREAMDOLIVE and although I know it's still a bit empty, for me, it's a success just launching it. Affecting 1 or 2 people to follow their dreams is totally amazing, but following your own dreams through sharing the journey is a success itself. It appears as though it's empty, but I know the stirring of hearts who came across this beautiful blog has just started. Time is on our side.

  I've also launched PHOTOSBYIRA which is the extension of IRATRAVELS focusing on my photography. And I'm so happy with Imgur as its photohost. Simple, direct to the point. If you're blogging photos, you should try it. :)

Blogging, proven, is hard work. But I'm willing to continue my writing sched and build up on it.

  Writing

I started a journal but this year I'm keeping a literal-notebook one. I'm planning to but a new printer so that I can print my OneNote journals since 2010 and bind them per year.

  For now, I'm focusing on photography and blogging, but writing, I think, makes up the triplets and I will write as always.

  Reads

5/50 in my goal of reads this year and I haven't finished anything this Feb. I'm currently reading an inspirational, fiction, and the Bible starting at Matthew. Planning to read the whole New Testament by the end of the year plus Psalms and Proverbs. Let's see.

  Travel

  I planned to travel less this year to save up for some of the things that I will share with you in the future. For now, just know that I'm saving (and that I don't need that bag! Or shoes! Or gadget thingy! Hahaha!)

This month, I was reminded that having too many goals can break you, so all you need to do is be happy with what you're doing and just enjoy doing it. Take a break from time to time, do something new, and know that with every little thing you do, you are making progress and that, will take you to far away places.

  So far, these are some of the things I've worked on in my dream list. How are yours doing? :)

  -ira

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Zig Ziglar

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the techy side

Are you ready to join? 

It's easy. All you have to do is shoot us an email at [email protected] with a brief intro about yourself and why you want to be part of the group. Once we received your mail, we'll give you our email key so that you may open our blog and share us and lots more of dreamers your story. As a team based on trust, we trust that you will take care of our home, our blog.

Tumblr is pretty easy to use so you won't have much problem. However there are a few things that you need not forget!

tag your posts with your first name (and let me know what that first name is)

tag your posts with "wedreamdolive"

If you have questions, just feel free to send us mail.

Hoping to have you here soon.

ira

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inspiration

I once had an idea of a traveling journal. A real notebook traveling the world. One will start to write about how his/her day was and he/she will hand down the notebook to a friend who in turn will write down about his/her day the next day, and so goes the trend until there are no more pages left. It will be brought back to the original writer at last.

  I imagined that it will be shipped to France, where I wanted to start because I met an friend online there. And this, she will pass to a dear friend of hers and so on. It will travel the world and will go back to me.

  The sole purpose? To know that we are all in the same boat. That we are not alone. That you feel what I feel and I feel what you feel. To meet new minds and perspectives. To gain insight from people of different experiences and cultures.

  It is a dream that I'd like to continue. We'll collect our thoughts and read them together. We'll have it published, on the web or as a real book. It's an endearing way to remind ourselves that we are not really who we are in Facebook or Twitter, but we are who we are on the thoughts we have and write on our journals at the end of the day. Our secrets spilled, the way we see things revealed.

  It may be a received as a crazy idea, but with you and me, it will not be. After all, anything is possible in this world.

  This is my inspiration in beginning this blog, however, I know that we have to wait for the right time. For now, let us dream and continue to do, live.