Ruby Red Slippers

My daughter "Ashlynn Kennedy" in her ruby red slippers




Sometimes it’s easy to think that we will be happy when _____ happens, or that we will do something extraordinary with our lives when______. If we just had a Jeannie with three wishes, a magic wand, a fairy God mother, or some ruby red slippers. Usually we have the power within us to make our dreams come true, but often we fail to realize it. Just like the scene in the Wizard of Oz when the good witch tells Dorothy that she had the power all along to get back to Kansas, but she just would not have believed it until she learned it for herself. You see, we all have ruby red slippers, we just don’t all realize it.
Just like Dorothy we don’t realize that our heart’s desire sometimes is in our own backyards. I don’t know about you but there’s not a lot in my backyard, but it’s a great metaphor for the fact that we already possess everything we need in order to be happy and content.
Don’t keep waiting for tomorrow because tomorrow may never come. We only really have this moment. The yellow brick road is in front of you and you are already wearing your ruby red slippers.
My children are supposed to learn from me but I believe they have taught me more than I have taught them. They have taught me to; be more child like, to wish upon stars, to walk barefoot, to believe in magic, to slow down. Simply they have taught me to just be. Just be in the moment. They have taught me to dream bigger and be more than I was yesterday. They have taught me that I have always had the power of the ruby red slippers.
“Most limitations are only limitations of the mind.” If you think you can, then you can. If you think you can’t, then you can’t. You limit yourself because you have limited thinking. If you want big then you have to think big. So put on your ruby red slippers and know that you have always had the power….