Strength is like a magnet pulling individual iron filling towards it. As children, many of us saw– or even played with– iron fillings and magnets at school. I was always thrilled by the magic of how the tiny iron fillings moved in response to the magnet creating beautiful patterns.

Here is a life lesson.

If you have a huge task to achieve or a heavy burden to shift, don't try to lift it all up at once.

Instead, see the task or burden transformed into iron fillings. Now see yourself transformed into a magnet of strength.

Don not place yourself in the middle and hope to gather all the iron fillings under your control. Move slowly toward them, around them and allow the individual iron fillings to feel your pull and come to you.

Move like a dance –with purpose, poise and calm.

Keep moving towards your goal. See how the iron fillings begin to respond. It may take a little time for you to gather them all, but you will.

I believe this is very similar to how we approached– and found the daily strength– to face Steve's terminal cancer. We moved forward with calm, purposeful dedication toward our goal, and nothing–just like those iron filings drawn to a magnet–was going to stop us!

BE a magnet of Strength!

Mandy