By: Geri Mason
When you watch your story play out on the screen of life and turn around to see who that person is, it’s time to do something different. You need to say, “Cut, call the director, this cannot be my life!” A few years ago I did a vision board with some of my most desirable dreams and visions. As the years have gone pass I have noticed that my vision was not big enough, so I decided to do some “spring cleaning.” I added some new things and upgraded some of the old ones. But what I realized is I need a bigger vision board with bigger challenges to meet. Those little dreams started coming true so fast that I could not keep up. That’s when I noticed that God was not only fulfilling my dreams, but He was also giving me more than I was asking. I decided to up my game plan!
As we enter into the season of Spring I look forward to the rain and the sunshine. We need them both for the blooming of the flowers, the beauty of the landscape, and our own growth and development. The show must go on regardless of the weather. I am excited about the characters that I place in my movie. I am the director, the producer, and the writer. I decide what stay and what hits the cutting floor. There is no one to dictate the roles that will be assigned, the co-stars, or the script. It is all in my hands. This is my life and I get to choose the title, the opening scene, the plot, and the closing credits.
Why don’t you take a sweep through your life and decide where you need some “spring cleaning”, so your movie will authentically represent who you are and not who the world has told you to be. You just might be in the wrong movie and don’t know it!
From pregnant, high-school drop-out to radio intern, television reporter, writer and motivational speaker, Geri Mason is definitely a “Woman on the Move.” Born to working class parents with little education, Geri was the only child of eight to graduate from college. After a breast cancer diagnosis at age 30, she began her search for deeper meaning and purpose for her life. Her ministry of writing, speaking, and encouraging others was born. Geri spoke in 1997 at the Million Woman March in Philadelphia, and continues to share through her books, speaking engagements, workshops, seminars, and the media. Her work has been published for over fifteen years in her monthly column for Key Awareness Publishing Newspaper, in Virginia. For more on “Geri Speaks” go to: gerispeak@yahoo.com, or www.gerispeak.com.