There is a Dream in You ~

What's the dream inside of you?

Is it to paint, take incredible photographs, 

write, sing, dance, sculpt, be a professional athlete?

Is that dream heavy on your mind

so much so that you continue to

make some attempts to draw closer to it

 and then doubt,

self doubt creeps in?

This is when you tuck away the dream,

again....!

After all who are you kidding

thinking you can catch your dream?

That only happens to other people...

I can remember when one of my son's

 at one point wanted to be professional baseball player.

When I heard this I recall thinking it wasn't likely,

but not impossible.

I told him to follow that dream,

 both of my son's were very good at the sport,

both  really good pitchers.

I  explained to him that compared to the 

number of those that attempt, which are thousands and

those who actually are picked are few.

So shoot for your dream but have something to fall back on

should you not make it.

After all, even professional athletes should have something 

to fall back on,

each are an injury away from ending their career's.

"Mom do you believe I can do it?"

Yes, follow that dream.!

~

Bruce Wilkinson wrote a book called ,

The Dream Giver.

Basically he tells us that he believes God has laid a dream on everyone's

heart, and that we are restless until we discover what that dream is.

I have a dream that was put on my heart  a little over four years ago,

 I don't speak of but to few.

I believe it's the way in which God intends to use me.

I've be given confirmation/validation in many forms over the years.

I become very enthusiastic over it and begin to pursue it.

This is when the,

self doubt sets in.

Who am I kidding thinking I can do this?

Me, 

capable of that?

Who would believe

I'm capable of it?

Well, 

today in my morning reading I answered that question.

God would believe it!

I want to fully put my trust in Him

and believe I can reach the dream,

with Him guiding me to do so.

The dream I believe He put on my heart.

Of one thing I'm certain,

 I don't want to get to heaven one day

and be asked why I didn't pursue the dream He put on my heart.

"Because I didn't trust you," is not the answer I would want to 

give, 

yet it would have been my answer

 until today....

I am going to step out in faith that I can do this.

Little voices telling me otherwise as I write this...

I have a choice of which voice to listen to,

and God is bigger than the voice of doubt.

With God it is possible...

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

 

So here  I go, stepping out in faith and saying it out loud...

yet...

(so afraid to even type it)

My dream is to write.

I have been writing for the last four years

and

I believe that there are certain people to whom
 what I have written is intended for.

It sits on my desk in completed form.

Afraid to let it go,

a giant case of the what if's..... 

Mark 9:24 

 Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”

 

I've said it.

YIKES!

  What's the dream inside of you that you are fearful to follow?

It's never too late ~

 Stepping out in faith!

Faith in the dream inside of me, it's what echos from my heart today.