Dream Come True

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What you are is God's gift to you. What you become is your gift to God.

DREAM COME TRUE

I’m thrilled that my dream to become a published author came a week earlier than expected. Yesterday, the Kindle version of my book “Simplify Life… and Make it Count” was released thru Amazon.com. By Friday next week, the paperback version will also be released thru Amazon.

It has been my lifelong dream to be able to have my name printed on a book, and saying that I’m so happy is an understatement. I want to thank my wife, Denielle, not only for editing and proofreading my book, but also for giving me the inspiration to follow my dream and making this journey a lot easier and worthwhile. She’s the best.

I also thank those people who have encouraged me in doing this, most notably were my mother, Teresita, and my mother-in-law, Jeanne. With their words, they have motivated me to compose my own words.

I give back all glory to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Thank You, Lord, for this wonderful, wonderful Christmas gift. I should’ve been the one giving You presents. I hope I can become what You really want me to be.

Lastly, special thanks to all you dear readers. This first book is for all of you who stood by even when everything seemed lost.

Really, this is becoming the best Christmas ever!

Raymund's Random Insights

Today is the day to give your dreams a new beginning.

Dreams mean work.

We are responsible for the effort, not the outcome.

Poem of the Week

DREAMS

by Emon

Dreams mean work.

I heard from Paulo Coelho.

No one else can do your

loving for you,

like the alphabet,

            shapes and colors,

you perfect it at your own pace,

learning as you go.

Love requires on the job training.

And no teacher lives who can be

effective to you, unless you

stay open for His signals

and is ready, willing

            to learn.

Again for dreams, none comes true

without a nightmare or a shadow.

Dream hard, dream big.

The larger your dream the quicker

            the little nightmare slips back

to where it belongs, some shadow

in an unimportant corner.

Always remember though that

whatever happens I will also

            always love you,

like a dream sought since childhood.

We will have gone beyond impossibilities

            with no restraining rein

and we will both come back again

to our own safe, same place I know.

And I will love you better then and more…

I will have learned from dreaming

how to love you more.

(January 2010)

AND FINALLY

For more information about my book “Simplify Life… and Make it Count”, kindly visit my blog, Minimalist on Purpose, at www.raymundtamayo.com. See you there and leave a comment.

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