Where Do Dreams Come From?
Some dreams come from the heart and other dreams come to the heart.
"The famous outcome isn’t often the right one, and often, neither is the common outcome. Being clear about where we’re going and why is a useful place to start."
Above quote taken from 'Seth's Blog', and I think this is the link:
https://seths.blog
I will have to post it to see if it works I suppose. However, it worked when I used it earlier. This was taken from a slightly longer piece (not much, but a bit longer), and I liked the concluding statement: "Being clear about where we're going and why—is a useful place to start."
Some people dream of becoming a doctor, a nurse, a teacher, or whatever else. They have a dream. On the other hand many spend most of their life looking and don't know what they are going to do.
So, how does a person 'be clear about where we're going and why?'
I'll be quite candid here, I'm not a young person, and I'm not sure that I've ever known where I'm going or why—on this earth. (See earlier post on 'Barrel of Monkeys' for more details.)
My number one goal is to make it to heaven and take everyone I can with me. I'm not sure who the author of my life has been, but as I wrote during one terribly discouraging part of my life, 'I think I've wandered into someone else's novel and it's not even a very good story.'
When I was young...oh, how many things have started with that phrase. I've even heard mid-twenty year olds use that phrase and thought (whoa baby, if you only knew...) I digress, when young, I read a lot of historical fiction, and it seemed someone was often making a 'vow of poverty, chastity, and humble service'. After marriage I would tell people we had taken 'a vow of poverty, chastity, and something else, but I couldn't remember what it was'. I would always laugh, and I figured surely they would understand I was jesting.
No, some people took me serious. It may have appeared that we were living in poverty, but how do you get chastity and seven kids? Unless they thought monogamy was the same thing. But being poor is neither a dream, nor a worthy goal. Likewise being rich is not a worthy dream nor a goal.
My mother had two daughters, and she really really wanted them to marry well. She wanted us to marry rich men who would take care of her the way she wanted to live.
She and I would have interesting discussions about this on occasion. I would insist you didn't have to have 'money' to be happy. She on the other hand would say, 'Well, try living without it.'
The odd thing was we were both right. I never thought I'd live to say that, but it's true. A gentle smile comes here.
Philippians 4:12 "I know how to be abased, and I know also how to abound: in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want. 13) I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me."
