Have you been choosing or working on choosing to believe your life, your bank account, your romantic liaison could be different? In the words of the late Maureen Stapleton to Meg Ryan in the now classic movie, You’ve Got Mail, “You are daring to believe you could have a different life.”

Can you dare to believe? Can you let your imagination float out beyond what you can see in front of you on this plane of reality and entertain the possibility of something else? Can you choose to believe your life or your world can be different?

Around this time of the year–Thanksgiving and the holiday season, I think of the miracle of meringue when I need to believe my situation, what I’m presently experiencing, can be different. Why meringue, you ask a bit incredulously? Not only does it top my great Grandmother’s cherished holiday pie recipe, but to create meringue you have to believe in possibility.

There in the bowl in front of you sits an unappetizing glob of uncooked egg whites, some cream of tartar and a scoop of sugar.

That’s reality.

You see it, you can feel it and if you’re so inclined, you can taste it. In goes your whisk, and just as your arm is about to cease functioning for the rest of your adult life, something happens and before your very eyes the bowl of slimy liquid transforms into  shiny, snow white peaks and valleys of luscious meringue for which, you are most grateful ,and possibly astounded. You believed it could be, just like it said in the Joy of Cooking, and it happened.

So this week, imagine whatever is making you feel sad, frustrated, angry or helpless, as the raw batter in the bowl. Now, see it, feel it, choose it to be transformed into something abundant, beautiful, and wonderfully delicious.

  “You will see it when you believe it.”

                                           Wayne Dyer