Donetta Loya was born and raised in Arizona. She moved to Parma, Idaho eleven years ago with her family. She is a wife of 31 years, a mother
of 6
children and a grandmother of 8.
Donetta attended Eastern
Arizona College. She has been a home-schooling mom for 17 years, a piano and voice teacher for 28 years. Her
most recent accomplishment is fulfilling her childhood dream of
becoming an author. Her first book was published May 2013. Since then she has
published 10 different books—3 fiction novels and 2 novellas, a woman’s inspirational, 2 journals, an
organizer and a children’s cookbook with her 12 year old daughter, Gretchen.
Donetta also loves to read,
garden, sew, and watch classic movies.
Thanks Carol
for asking me to be one of your guest bloggers. Hmmm….
Where to start?
I recently added a section to my blog
called “A Happy Homemaker.” I love being a wife and mother! I have been lucky
enough to be a stay-home mom for many years. I thought of my homeschooling experiences, my
years of teaching music. I thought of my recent bout with cancer that lead to
my leap into becoming an author. I thought of my spiritual experiences and the
blessing my life has been filled with over the past few years. I thought of how
great it is to just be alive!
I realized then that the message I want to
share was to tell you that you can be anything you set your mind to! There is
no limit to what we are capable of accomplishing. The trouble is beginning and
making that change.
I have a cross stitch saying on my wall
that I found the first year I was married. “Each Moment is a New Beginning.” These
words have influenced me for years. I see them every morning when I wake up.
This phrase
can be applied to life in so many ways.
Begin again if you find yourself heading
in a direction you know doesn’t feel right. Start over when you have offended
someone, apologize and go forward. Stop and start again if the project you have
been working on just isn’t working out. Sometimes these things are hard to do,
but you can!
So many times we find ourselves in a rut,
but you are afraid to stop and change the direction you have been going. We
keep plowing ahead because we have always gone in that direction. It is like Dr. Seuss’ Zaks. A north going Zak and
a south going Zak meet up. Each standing in the path of the other. Well, these
obstinate beings would not budge—not to the east, not to the west. So they
stood there not advancing, not progressing, because they were so stubborn about
changing their course.
Sometimes we are just like those Zaks. We
tell ourselves that we have to keep on the same path, keep doing the same things
because that is just how it is! Our family did it, the community expects it … excuses.
So many excuses stand in our way of taking that leap of faith in ourselves to
be able to stop the nowhere direction we are going and take the steps to begin accomplishing
our dreams.
I have always dreamed of writing a book.
But it wasn’t until I found out I had cancer to realize that I hadn’t done
everything I wanted to do yet! I still had goals that I had not achieved. Of
course, truth be told. If I had not had those months of healing and being
forced to change my course, I would not have started writing again. I would not
have published my book, “Darla’s Decision.”
So I say to you--Be brave and make the
change! If there is something you have
always wanted to do—then just do it! Make your plan and go for it! Don’t wait
until it’s almost too late to even have your new beginning.
Happy Running!
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