Getting out on the skinny branches can be a bit scary.  Just knowing that we DO have wings, and if we take the leap we will have the wind beneath them, makes us more willing to get on those branches from time to time.  Go ahead!  You will learn so much about yourself.  You will gain faith in yourself.  And, every time you do it, it gets easier.

“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”  Victor Hugo

Have you ever caught yourself neglecting to follow a dream because you were afraid to get out on the “skinny branches”?  I have.  It could have been fear, lack of self confidence, lack of commitment to a project – OK, all of the above at one time or another.  I’m not perfect.

Did you ever watch a bird land on one of the smallest, almost invisible, branches on a tree, and wonder why she didn’t break the branch and fall?  Instead she just sits there and sings a beautiful song.  Sometimes the bird song can seem almost endless and there she sits and just sings and sings.  She knows the branch won’t break, and that little bird doesn’t even come close to fearing that the branch will break because she has wings.  She sings because she knows that whenever she is ready, she can spread her wings and fly.   

Next time you have a dream, remember that little bird.  You see, we have wings too, and far too often, we forget that.