Before I get into what I want to talk about, I want to tell you how happy this blog makes me, how happy seeing that people looked at it makes me. You guys are truly the best!
The past several days I have seen many pictures and blog posts about doing what you've always wanted, and being afraid of failing. I feel like I need to share with you all a little about dreams, what mine are, and how important putting those dreams into reality is.
Let's start with the basics: what is a dream? I am not talking about dreams you have at night, I'm talking about what you have always wanted to do. A dream, in this sense, is a deep desire and/or passion. Every human has some sort of passion, we don't always know what it is right away, but some know it from the time they are little. My brother Troy is a fabulous example of knowing your dream young. When he was 18 months, he saw a plane fly over and was mesmerized. Ever since that day, my brother has been obsessed with planes and flying. Almost annoyingly so. And in May, he is graduating with a degree in aviation AND his commercial pilot liscence at the age of 21, after which he will gain flying hours and become a commercial airline pilot. He followed his dream.
I believe that God has given us these dreams, these passions. I believe they are a gift to us, among all the other gifts He's given (love, mercy, salvation, eternal life). These dreams aren't only for us, they are for Him. He wants us to use them to Glorify Him, change people's hearts toward Him. He wants us to follow our dreams and shine His light to the world through whatever our dream is. Whether it be a stay at home mommy, working on the oil rigs, joining the military, spreading the gospel to foreign countries. All our dreams are meant to be used to honor our Lord and savior.
Dreams have a purpose, and dreams, they are worth living for.
'If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michaelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.' -Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have dreams and passions. What are they? I dream to become a writer. I am a writer, but I want to become a writer. A writer who has books published, who has people who read them all over. People who enjoy my books so much that they read them over and over again like I have read others. I thought for a while that medicine was my dream, I was going to become a nurse because the dream a being a writer seemed impossible. But I thought, how can it be impossible if Emily Bronte and Veronica Roth and J. R. R. Tolkien became writers? A nurse is not who I am, a writer is. I want to also be a mother who invests all her time into her children while she accomplishes her dream. I want to teach them and show them love and always be there for them. Lastly, I want to be a light of Christ. I want everyone to look at me and not see me, but see Christ and His goodness.
These are my dreams, what are yours? Feel free to share!
Don't forget, owl be hawkard, so should you. ;)
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