Everyone has dreams... Ambitions.
Little things they expect out of their daily life. Bigger goals of things they've always wanted, of what life is about, of what they want to become. Life isn't about now, life is about what will happen!
This is what drives us on: the little things that keep our minutes by minute perspective moving forward, and the big goals that keep our minds resilient, give us a reason to keep bouncing back.
Everyone has disappointments... Dreams shattered.
These are what change who we are; we either grow smaller, allow our world to become more tightly controlled, and our perceptions are carefully guarded, so that we cannot get hurt in the same way again, or we grow bigger. We fight our own defenses, to become more than who we are. To become what we want to be. The bigger your end goal is, the bigger your ability to keep walking. To do more than survive.
Sometimes when little dreams are realised they actually limit us. They become commonplace; there is no reason to move on. When we think about dreams our we only remember the past ones, we only remember the feeling, the rosy hope of what we wanted to happen. Dreams are not something to grow with... rather something to take our minds off "the real world." God gave us dreams so he could shape us, little dreams are stepping stones, not plateaus, even though we treat them as such. To keep dreaming, to understand that a dream is really a road to where you must keep going, is to keep growing.
When dreams fail, we think that means the goal they are pointing to is invalid, we must change track. Or we think that the dream wasn't important, we couldn't have felt that way for a reason, and we lose the precious lessons in the dream. God gave us an the instinct to learn from what we do in order to improve our performance, but the way we use it depends entirely at what we believe was done wrong. To have a dream, to want something, is an indication of where the heart lies. The way a dream is lived out is built on the goal. There are only true final goals in this world: To glorify God forever, or some self driven agenda, matter what it may be.
What I know about dreams affects how I look at others: People are like islands, sticking out of the sea of experiences. For every tiny bit of a person that I explore, and get to know, there's an entire, interwoven, complicated and messy mountain of dreams lost and realised plunging deep under the ocean. We can never completely get to understand even the sticking out island bit, but we can understand that there are dreams, and the ghosts of dreams, underneath. When you understand that, you look at people through your own lens of dreams, and you can understand their island, on the surface at least.
People can't understand people. the only one who can is the One who knows His creation's heart. I leave the judging of people's dreams up to God, and try to take sure I don't look at other people as something for me to use, and then move on, but as people I may see in heaven. I want to make sure I let God deal with their mountains, and I understand their islands. After all, God's got my island under control; why not explore the rest of His wonderful world?
Everything I post on this blog is from my own heart, and my goal is to have people with much bigger mountains than mine come along and read it, then point out what I've done wrong, since there are things I definitely don't understand yet. Come ye God-fearing elders and help this wee lassie :)
Little things they expect out of their daily life. Bigger goals of things they've always wanted, of what life is about, of what they want to become. Life isn't about now, life is about what will happen!
This is what drives us on: the little things that keep our minutes by minute perspective moving forward, and the big goals that keep our minds resilient, give us a reason to keep bouncing back.
Everyone has disappointments... Dreams shattered.
These are what change who we are; we either grow smaller, allow our world to become more tightly controlled, and our perceptions are carefully guarded, so that we cannot get hurt in the same way again, or we grow bigger. We fight our own defenses, to become more than who we are. To become what we want to be. The bigger your end goal is, the bigger your ability to keep walking. To do more than survive.
Sometimes when little dreams are realised they actually limit us. They become commonplace; there is no reason to move on. When we think about dreams our we only remember the past ones, we only remember the feeling, the rosy hope of what we wanted to happen. Dreams are not something to grow with... rather something to take our minds off "the real world." God gave us dreams so he could shape us, little dreams are stepping stones, not plateaus, even though we treat them as such. To keep dreaming, to understand that a dream is really a road to where you must keep going, is to keep growing.
When dreams fail, we think that means the goal they are pointing to is invalid, we must change track. Or we think that the dream wasn't important, we couldn't have felt that way for a reason, and we lose the precious lessons in the dream. God gave us an the instinct to learn from what we do in order to improve our performance, but the way we use it depends entirely at what we believe was done wrong. To have a dream, to want something, is an indication of where the heart lies. The way a dream is lived out is built on the goal. There are only true final goals in this world: To glorify God forever, or some self driven agenda, matter what it may be.
What I know about dreams affects how I look at others: People are like islands, sticking out of the sea of experiences. For every tiny bit of a person that I explore, and get to know, there's an entire, interwoven, complicated and messy mountain of dreams lost and realised plunging deep under the ocean. We can never completely get to understand even the sticking out island bit, but we can understand that there are dreams, and the ghosts of dreams, underneath. When you understand that, you look at people through your own lens of dreams, and you can understand their island, on the surface at least.
People can't understand people. the only one who can is the One who knows His creation's heart. I leave the judging of people's dreams up to God, and try to take sure I don't look at other people as something for me to use, and then move on, but as people I may see in heaven. I want to make sure I let God deal with their mountains, and I understand their islands. After all, God's got my island under control; why not explore the rest of His wonderful world?
Everything I post on this blog is from my own heart, and my goal is to have people with much bigger mountains than mine come along and read it, then point out what I've done wrong, since there are things I definitely don't understand yet. Come ye God-fearing elders and help this wee lassie :)
