For as long as I can remember, I’ve had dreams – things I
want to experience, things I want to accomplish, places I want to go, and even
things I want to have. I think dreaming
is so important in life because it reminds you what is possible. I’m not sure if I totally go along with the
adage, “If you can dream it, then you can get it.” But, the converse is absolutely true, “If you
don’t dream it, you won’t attain it.”
Because, without the dream, how do you make a goal and a plan to reach
it?
Last weekend, I was honored to witness a dream come
true. My beloved Rachel married her
dream man. So many prayers were lifted
for this day to come. She stayed
faithful and so did God. I’ve never seen
her look more radiant. I have no doubt
that she and Quenton have many dreams for their new life together.
In a conversation at the wedding reception, someone so
wisely said that you have to feed your dreams to keep them alive. Feed them by taking steps toward that
goal. Sometimes, they are just little
steps that keep the desire alive. In
applying this to me, I realized that in some ways I am doing this already. I have a dream to take an anniversary trip to
an all-inclusive resort somewhere in the tropics in the next couple of
years. I’ve started selling my lace
painting again to help fund the trip but it also feeds the dream. Every time I complete a project, I know I am
one step closer to that resort.
One of my lifelong dreams, well actually for almost as long
as I’ve been a mother (I was saved when I was pregnant with Kelsey), was for my
kids to have a close walk with our Lord and Savior. I don’t ever want them to experience the
desert in isolation like I have. I want
them to know not just the joy of a rock solid faith, but also the contentment
that such a faith provides. I want them
to know that they have a constant companion who loves them no matter what, who
loves them simply because they are. I
want them to have that solid sense of self-worth and confidence that only comes
when you truly grasp that love and know the cost of that love. I want them to know with every fiber of their
being that they are good enough simply because God created them and bought them
with the blood of Jesus Christ. A wise,
old soul in a very young body once said to me, “I want to be so wrapped up in
Christ that any man who wants to pursue me, must pursue God.” I want my kids to be that wrapped up.
How do I feed my dream into someone else? The obvious first answer is prayer. That is a given. The next obvious answer is by my
example. Living and simply being
according to my faith sets an example to my kids. Yesterday and today, I failed. I allowed my usual Christmas “bad-itude,”
which feels like it is on steroids this year, win. I say this now not to excuse it but rather to
expose it to the Light. Otherwise,
darkness continues to grow. Dreams,
especially this dream, grow in the Light.
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