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WELL, HELLO!

I love when you love on each other.

Whether you are newly engaged, a new mother and your day old baby, or a couple exchanging vows.

I love capturing love written all over your faces.

Love for life.
Love for each other.
Love for your passion.

This is where I find the real you. Where the the giggles come out. I’ll meet you there.
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Fall down. Stand Up.

03.16.2012 | Authenticity | 3 Comments

A really short story for you today. (Imagine sitting around a circle with crossed legs and me opening a book and reading in my pretty librarian voice)

Imagine you (an awesome hard worker) are bouncing around and headed towards a new goal. Ambitious. Happy. Ready.

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Then you hit your first speed bump and you get whoa whoa whoa wobbly. You fall down. When you hit the ground and you freak out because everyone else is seamlessly jumping around you. (you might even give us all the pouty lip)

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Then what do you know. You bounce back up and look who made it to their butt. That exact person that you were comparing yourself to. Maybe you can’t even see when they hit trouble, failure, hardship, but they fell down too. 
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The moral of the story. EVERYONE falls down. The key is WHO gets back up. Maybe even more important, WHO gets back up with a smile on their face, grit in their teeth and is ready to try again. Don’t just give-in or pout (like I did with last week). Don’t compare your path to theirs. Yours in unique to you, cherish and embrace that.

 

Remember that kid in you who wants to JUMP some more. Don’t even blush or be embarrassed. Learn to LAUGH, put on your awesome pants and get back up. Maybe even through your hands in the air. 

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Fall down seven times, get back UP eight.

The End.

  • Liz (03.16.2012 08:41pm)

    Are we going to see more of this dynamic duo? So cute! They are the illustrations for your library voice :)

  • Petronella (03.16.2012 09:19pm)

    Gina, I love you! This post blessed me, esp this week when I felt like things had fallen apart. I’m stopping the pout fest, moving on, sharing my story next week & dancing til it hurts.

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Today

01.17.2012 | Authenticity | 6 Comments

Today I am completely overwhelmed with joy of his goodness and grace.

Today, I feel. I laugh. I hurt. I smile. I FEEL. So many years of my life I only felt by external circumstances. Compliments, attention, entertainment, interaction with others, accomplishing work. I was numb inside. SO numb inside and truthfully wasn’t aware there was more out there. More for me. More for my heart. Today, I feel light radiating from my body.  His light. I want to continue to bring that light into all areas my life, and spread to those around me.

My heart is overflowing with tears and gratefulness to all that have held my hand through the journey to get here.  This picture below illustrates each of you…who believed in me when I couldn’t see up. Who stuck by me through the rough. Who knew my heart and my steps, even when my actions showed otherwise. You fought for me, when I wanted to give up. Who dragged me along into light and embraced me with love.

Romans 15:13 13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

I am here today friends, and I can’t believe it. It’s beautiful. My hands are lifted as tears, fall down my cheeks, full of praise. So grateful. Thank you, Lord. Thank you.

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  • Gina (01.17.2012 06:14pm)

    Oh my, such beautiful words, filled with so much! I hope one day I will be as near of this phase as you are! Bravo, Gina!

  • leah (01.17.2012 06:16pm)

    This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24

    • Gina Zeidler (03.12.2012 04:33pm)

      YOU ARE AWESOME and you need that bow dress ;) LOVE YOU.

  • Liz (01.17.2012 06:17pm)

    Beautiful , real, you, GIna. :) xoxo

  • Erin Davenport (01.18.2012 12:36pm)

    Beautiful beautiful beautiful. Love to you, Gina :)

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Butts UP

01.16.2012 | Authenticity | 4 Comments

Butt’s up to Monday.

Flip this day on its head. Decide that you are going to do this one different and embrace this day with a smile. Take all of that Monday stereotype and shove it. Set your feet and move forward. Turn up the tunes and shake your tushy. Celebrate. You have been blessed with another day to live and play. So do just that.

Live.

Don’t go through the motions or a boring routine. Push yourself. Stop waiting. Take one step towards a crazy idea. Jump a little higher. Leap a little farther.

(A first look at my Texas Live-in session this week, pssssssst….you have till Fri. to send me your You and Me story to win a free session)

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Perspective

11.29.2011 | Authenticity | 6 Comments

One of my favorite, favorite things about traveling is that I love seeing that there are so many other people on this earth. Tons of unique faces in the airport, on the plane, in the destination city and I’m almost inspired more while walking to baggage claim here in Minneapolis. I am just bewildered at all of these people that I don’t know, that are going places. Tons and tons of others visiting family, work trips, vacations, just living their lives. It’s a beautiful perspective, that there is so much more to this world that just my small surroundings.

When I return home and get back in the swing of things I so often find myself losing that perspective. Losing patience, getting frustrated about what I don’t have or where I am not. Overwhelmed or stressed and I seem to act like God can’t handle my problems, when the truth is. These things are so trivial and that HE is so much bigger. A friend recently recommended to put a silent alarm on my phone that said “grateful for?” that goes off once a day and I either write a word or two down or think on it and it really does help bring me back to earth.

Back to the perspective of being grateful, content and serving whole heartily with what I have in the present moment.

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  • Holly (11.29.2011 01:26pm)

    Wow. I love this image and love the writing even more. The two are beautiful together. Funny thing – I went to bed thinking about you, like I wanted to pick up a phone and call and get some more of you in my life. And then I woke up to this. :D I think I’m going to go ahead and set that phone reminder…

  • donya (11.29.2011 02:03pm)

    What a fantastic idea!! I get that same ‘perspective’ feeling when I travel. I think it’s why I love traveling so much. Airports are great for people watching.

  • Annie Johnson (11.29.2011 02:56pm)

    This is awesome G!!!

    You are one talented chica!!

    xoxo Annie :)

  • Char (12.04.2011 07:28pm)

    Love this, I am always so blessed, challenged, and inspired when I stop be here. Perspective is reality…ya know? I have been thinking about this a lot lately. I also think your perspective on life is quite beautiful!

  • Natalie Norton (12.13.2011 05:41am)

    I think you are exceptional. I love you.

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