The Power of Dreams

Issue #67

Humans have the ability to dream of a better world, and those dreams give us hope that we can change ourselves. Dreams give us the ability to see beyond our current circumstances, to see different opportunities, to see better opportunities.

The ability to dream is a powerful gift. Dreams fill us with hope for a better future, and without hope, we have nothing to live for—we are dead.

Dreams are all that many of us have to hold onto. If we give up our dreams, our lives might as well be over. Even if we never achieve our dreams, we need the hope they inspire in us. We always need hope until that moment arrives when we take our last breath. Hope keeps us alive.

Do you believe in your dreams? Do you believe in the opportunities that can and will come into your life? Each of us makes our future by believing in our dreams. When we give up on our dreams, we die a slow waking death. Never give up on your dreams. What you believe in, you can achieve. The dreams that you have been given are yours to achieve. Nothing is impossible if you believe.

We are given multiple dreams of who we want to be and what we want to accomplish. Some dreams come true early in life, and some don't happen until we are well on our way to the grave.

Some dreams are fleeting, and some last a lifetime. Some dreams require a miracle, and some come with the snap of the fingers. Some dreams haunt our waking hours, and others inhabit our sleep. Some dreams dance with the angels, and others hide in the closet of our nightmares.

What dreams haunt your life? What dreams demand the most of your heart? What dreams do you still cling to? What dreams have you forgotten?

We often spend much of our time planning our lives—either by writing down goals or daydreaming about what life will be like when we are successful. We daydream about how our life will be when we have a best-selling novel or a movie studio buys our script to turn it into a movie. Yet, as the popular saying goes, life is what happens when you are planning other things. Maybe it is the unexpected birth of a child. Or falling in love and getting married. Or a car accident that leaves you paralyzed.

I have spent many of my days dreaming about being able to write full-time. And while it has never happened, I have spent over 50 years writing. And yet, I am happy with my life. I don't need to write full-time. An hour or two a day is enough.

As a teenager, I dreamed of being a preacher, yet it has been years since I stepped into a church. But I have spent much of my life speaking and inspiring those who would listen. Not, of course, in the way I imagined or my parents imagined.

What we seek does not always happen as we imagine it will. We receive what we desire, but it often does not appear as we imagined. It takes on its own life, its own dimension.

What do you do when your dreams don't happen like you imagined? Do you stop dreaming? Or do you change the dream? Or do you reframe your expectations to match the reality?

Plant seeds of hope in the hearts of others!