A prayer to feel the wind...

Who would imagine?

As I sing the song below I am suddenly back at the  Splendour of the Seas 's back deck again, doing what I used to do a thousand times when I was onboard...

Feeling the wind and hoping to forget the past at same time as I dreamed about the future ashore.

That usual cold wind has helped me to think clearer about my deepest issues.  And today I'd really like and need go back to that deck again.

I've been missing the sound of  the ship across the sea, the  friendly sea wind on my face, and my “shipmates” weird noises… LOL

At least now, thank God, I do not have anything that I want to forget . Now, I only have good memories that erased those sad thoughts.

I have no doubt that my life is much better since came I back home, and even though the tough times are still a part of my real life, they also taught me that alongside of the good times they  are a unchangeable part of life.

Amazingly so, I must admit that I am still bothered by some unexpected issues nowadays ,and is in those moments  that I’d like to have a little bit of that sea wind blowing in my face, helping me  keep my mind and blood cold enough to make the best decision,  to step in the right path.

That place, at the end of the ship, usually would have provided me the impression that I was far enough from any bad things, feelings, situations, even people sometimes. And then able to see them through a different perspective and consequently silencing that bad things out.

The best thing about see the bad times at a full perspective, is that a global view seems to  provide us with a possibility to choose the best alternative for our problems almost every time.

That’s  why I’ve been praying  to God “Dear Lord, please help me feel as I did when I was at that back deck, in such a way that I can have a full perspective and make the best choices about life, people, behavior, and all things surrounding me. Dear God, I do need to see the problems smaller than they are, to solve them in a easier way and I depend upon you to do it”.

And then, the most amazing things start to happen, a thought, or better than that, the conviction that God still being so powerful and merciful as he’s ever been , and I can be sure that better things are coming,  even though I have no longer that sweet cold air blowing in my face .

P.S.: I'd like to say thanks to my dear friend Carolina Castro, who gently has revised this text.

MANY THANKS CAROL!!!

Job very well done :).

I love you Venice.

No I am not italian, indeed. I was born in Brazil on 1977. In 2009 I've suffered some losses that almost have led me to death. I consider that my reborn day was when I arrived in Venice on a very nice April morning.

I looked that place of my dreams and I was there, and that was my real life. After 16 days inside the sea, I was far from my family, my old friends and from that things that had hurted me too. I was inside of a old dream, that sometimes seemed as a nightmare, but in the biggest part of time was just a supposed unreachable dream. And I'd reached indeed.

Now I know that the hard times was exactly what did from that experience something real.

In fact, thanks God for made my dreams come true. And it happened at Venice on 2011. That's why I consider Venice as my place of birth as well .

Part of me was born on Venice on that spring morning, the part that still alive today... The part that says to me, when I look to the mirror: HEY GIRL!!! There's nothing impossible to God in your life... he led you to Venice once, and he can lead you to any place or to anything you want, you need... DON'T BE AFRAID He is under the control. JUST DO NOT STOP TO BELIEVE !!!! And I won't to stop...