{"id":320,"date":"2010-03-09T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2010-03-09T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T17:08:00","slug":"yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Yes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Readers,<\/p>\n<p>Recently I was having a conversation with a friend who had decided to say &#8220;yes&#8221; to everything that came her way. &#8220;I&#8217;m thinking that if it&#8217;s put in my path it&#8217;s Divine Will so I&#8217;m just saying yes to it.&#8221; As a result she was experiencing all kinds of miracles in her life.<\/p>\n<p>There was a Jim Carrey movie, <i>Yes Man<\/i>, that came out last year about a man who took a similar approach to life after being forced into it by a &#8220;Yes&#8221; guru. It turns his whole life around. Where he was once fearful, he becomes fearless. Where closed, open. You get the idea. He is transformed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in a situation right now where I&#8217;ve decided to &#8220;just say yes&#8221; to something that scares me. It&#8217;s something very banal, something that people do everyday by the millions but I&#8217;ve never done it before and it brings up the terror big-time. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m buying a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>There are all kinds of reasons why I could say no to this prospect and they run the gamut from environmental to financial but I&#8217;ve weighed them all carefully and what my &#8220;no&#8221; really comes down to is fear. I&#8217;m afraid. It may sound silly but it&#8217;s the truth.<\/p>\n<p>What if I buy the wrong one? What if I can&#8217;t afford it 6 months down the road? What if I&#8217;m struck by lightning because I&#8217;m contributing to the accumulation of more junk on the planet? What if the environmental fascists find out and hunt me down?<\/p>\n<p>Ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>Seeking Higher Guidance, I consulted the <a href=\"http:\/\/cherylrichardson.com\/\">Grace Cards<\/a>. I was sure I was going to pull one that said &#8220;Prudence: don&#8217;t be an arse you can live without a vehicle you&#8217;ve been doing it for years&#8221; but instead I picked &#8220;Surprise: Keep an open mind. Grace can often be found in unexpected places.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Even trucks?<\/p>\n<p>So after this conversation with my yes-friend I&#8217;ve made the final decision to go ahead and take the plunge, take the risk and walk through my fear. I&#8217;m looking forward to the surprise!<\/p>\n<p>Inspiring Message of the Day: I will practice saying &#8220;yes&#8221; to whatever comes my way today. I will keep an open mind about where saying &#8220;yes&#8221; can lead me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Readers, Recently I was having a conversation with a friend who had decided to say &#8220;yes&#8221; to everything that came her way. &#8220;I&#8217;m thinking that if it&#8217;s put in my path it&#8217;s Divine Will so I&#8217;m just saying yes to it.&#8221; As a result she was experiencing all kinds of miracles in her life.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,4,5,177,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grace-cards","category-inspiration","category-motivation","category-say-yes","category-yes-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}