Dream your dreams...
People move away.
Favorite places are leveled for new structures.
Old friends look with puzzlement when we travel back.
Few things stay the same for long.
Few hearts await our return with a smile, a welcome home or a warm bed.
Where is home?
What can we trust?
Where can we find comfort?
Where can we place our life’s anchor?
We live in a world with rules. We live in a community that awaits our contribution. We mingle with folks who clamor for success, security and love. We see the Sparrow lying still along the side of the road. We know their are folks better off than we....and, they secretly exist. And it is in the midst of such a community, we live.
We sense the forces that want our attention. Yet, to focus on the daily struggles...to place our anchors there, is futile. We taste the peace of momentary “home” and try to hold on. We try to keep the good times going, much like we carry the photos of loved ones...yet, many of us are jarred to release and move on
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The world is not a place for our anchor. The momentary security of home offers only the passing taste of peace. Friends and familiar surroundings too often pass away.
For many of us, only within our dreams we can rest securely...our dreams that begin within the memorable joys and successes of our lives. Our strength that lies within our efforts to reach our goal. Our security that lies in our belief in ourselves and in the honorableness of our dream. Our peace that lies in trusting our chosen path.
There may be times of doubt. Brief times when we are hopeless. Times when we meet the harshness of brick walls...of scrapes, wounds and pain. During those times, defeat is not an option. Tomorrow is our only focus. Trust is our foundation. Keeping on our feet may be the best we can do during those rare difficult moments. It is our promise that those dark times will pass. It is a fact that from those hopeless times we will rise to new heights of success.
You are never alone...your dream and those who share it are with you. You are never on unsupervised ground...your dream already exists in your mind. You are never a failure...just looking for another way to make that dream a reality. You can choose to quit. You can stop playing the game. You can discontinue your participation. But, others can not defeat you. Life can not rob you of your destiny. You are the master of your ship and only you can choose your course.
Follow your dreams. Rise above the momentary pain and take another step. Seek your goal even when you can barely consider another step. Sometimes in the dark or sometimes without hope...take another step. Put another brick on the foundation walls. And, soon, brick by brick, the structure will take form...far more grand than you ever dreamed. Soon, the structure that began as a dream will take form and folks will notice and admire. You will most likely look with amazement upon your own work.
Identifying and following your dreams is that life process that will offer you purpose and design for your life. It is a mission for which you were sent. It is your destiny to make dreams come true. This is the secret place. Within it it is your life’s force for which you exist. It is a flotation devise that will keep your head above the water.
Seek it...your dreams.
Work for it...your dreams.
Understand that life will ultimately be measured by the number of your dreams fulfilled and not by the heights or depths of your existence.
