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What do you see?

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"I spy with my little eyes something blue"! Do you know this game? Kids love to play "I spy"! So do I! Since I got in the planet Venezuela, I spied a lot of  "something" ugly! Oh, yes, sadly! In the beginning my little eyes were able to see the "ugly, the dirty, the annoying,..." oh,it wasn't nice to play I spy! But, as we learn, in life all the things pass and so my little eye which spied the ugly, the dirtiest,...., you know! I decided I was tired to spy the opposite of the beauty and I begun to look above and suddenly my little tired eyes saw the colors of the rainbow, the blue of the mountains, the purple of the flowers,.... and I was cheerful about what my eyes and heart could see despite of my past experience. I told before in an old post and I'll say again.... we need to open our hearts to see the beauty in life. I still spy the ugly but when I look above I can find the rainbow! Let's find the colors and paint...

What's your giant?

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Sometime ago I heard about the everyday "stones" each one of us have in our daily routine. I thought about the "stones" and I realized that even the little stones can be giants that we have to deal with it. So, my question is: what is my giant? Well, dear reader everyday a giant can appear in our lives, that's a fact! But, do we really have giants or we have the talent to transform those little "stones" into huge rocks impossible to crush, in giants impossible to defeat? I can't answer for you, but I can assure you that even giants we can defeat! Remember the little shepherd David who defeated Goliath, the mighty giant? David had such powerful mind, he believed he could do it because God was present in his life. He knew he could win Goliath! Nobody believed in David, even his friends laughed at him, but David didn't hesitated, he was faithful, he was courageous, he was a warrior!  Well, in the end David without powerful guns or a...