I have recently been challenged, inspired, and given permission to “Dream Again.”
Let’s be honest between family, work, and everything in between sometimes our dreams take a backseat to our reality. Not to say that reality is all that bad, in fact sometimes it’s great, however it’s not always what you thought it might be. Somewhere in the course of reality-rationalizing we stop dreaming…the daily grind becomes the norm, your status becomes quo. Time starts telling you what you can and can’t do…circumstances call the shots. We get used to Normal, we accept normal, in fact we deify Normal….”if things would just get back to normal,” we find ourselves saying it all the time. The What if’s turn in to What’s and the Why Not’s turn into Why’s….
I think for the past few years I have done some settling for Normal…sometimes out of laziness, sometimes out of confusion, and sometimes I think I settled just to survive. For me, that season is over…a new season is here. It’s time to dream again, time to throw as much as I can on a white board, time to fill journals with what could be and should be, it’s time to get to bed early because I know I won’t be able to sleep because my imagination is on overdrive…
Have you stopped dreaming? personally? in your career? in your ministry? It’s a new season…It’s time to DREAM AGAIN.
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January 13, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Kelly
I think this is a good dream of my husband’s that we were talking about last night…
We were talking about the unity (or lack there of) of the universal body of Christ. So, how great would it be to get a world-wide festival like the Al Gore concert thing of a couple summers ago where the Church takes like a week to unite together on every continent for one straight week of just serving people and then the culmination would be a giant time of worship where people on every continent are just united in worshipping at the same time. It would be called One Love, and Bono would finish it off by leading everyone in Amazing Grace. Not bad for an accountant.
January 14, 2009 at 9:27 am
Marti
Someone once said that life is a journey, not a destination. Dreams are part of that journey. Many times people want their dreams to be fulfilled overnight, and that just doesn’t happen. A dream is something that is meant to be worked at, a little bit at a time, and slowly (over the YEARS, not days) it gets closer and closer…sometimes with a step or two back before progressing forward again. The best part though is if you have a dream that you are sharing with your mate. It bonds you even tighter, and there’s someone there to cling to when the going gets rocky. But always keep that dream in sight. Someday you just might get to it. Funny thing though, once you get that dream, suddenly another pops up on the horizon and you get to do it all over again. THAT’s the way to live your life’s journey.
January 14, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Larry Simmons
I have definitly stopped dreaming in my job. It is a daily survival thing for sure.
I keep dreaming about a spiritual awakening in the Northeast, specifically in our area which has been so dry for so long. That’s why NC excites me. I see God bringing people to Himself through it. My dream is to have churches like that in the Hudson Valley. It’s been my dream for years and that God might use me in some small way toward this, however He sees fit.
I have other dreams that I can’t identify yet, but I feel that there is something else coming. I know that sounds weird but it’s hard to express it. Like I’m being trained for something later.