We all know that we have one – a dream that is.
…and most of us have not treated it very well.
Before I get too far along in this blog let me make a point of saying that I’m not trying to talk to you from some sort of higher plane of spirituality on this. I am rather trying to say – look how badly I have mangled, neglected, broken, bruised, injured, marred, wounded, hacked at, distorted, disrespected and slighted my own dream.
I had pictured this whole short demonstration to illustrate how we treat our dreams. I was going to use candles and show how: The storms of life come along and blow out our dreams. We can drown our dreams under piles of priorities and other stuff. We are so afraid that others may catch a glimpse of our dream that we cover it up and hold it close – so close that we are either burnt by our own dream or we smother it. Sometimes we walk around with imposter dreams that others have insisted we do (and we go along with) or counterfeit dreams that we show instead of the real ones. I was going to do this but God stopped me ( at first I thought he gave me the idea to – and he probably did. I know, it can get confusing – as long as he gets me to do the right thing at the right time then that is ok) and allowed me to put it here instead.Part of what I am trying to get it is that these God-given dreams are important to our purpose. Not only that, t they aren’t just one of the reasons we are alive – they make us come alive.
I know you have felt it before – even if it was just a fleeting glimpse. You see something or hear something that awakens a hint of passion inside of you. That is just a hint of what it should be when purpose begins to meet passion. It is like two gears mating together to turn whatever machinery they are a part of. When the gear of purpose and the gear of passion meet they were designed to work together. They are made for each other. When your purpose meets your passion you will be fully alive.
For some reason I can’t let this go without a couple of words of warning.
Don’t try to invent your own purpose and don’t get distracted by add-ons or those little things that seem like they would be nice to along with your dream – instead they will bog you down and distract you from the mission.