Dreaming Awake
5 Oct
This past Sunday night we started this little thing called “Dream Labs.” I don’t know if you have heard anything about it in the interwebs, but it is awesome. Spending some time and dreaming, talking about your dreams and being held accountable to achieving your dreams.
As we were talking a few people made the point that they stopped dreaming in Middle School….and come to think about it….so did i. But for reasons that others may not have.
The more we talked and the more i talked i realized that my dreams stopped when my life kicked into survival mode. After the abuse, after the move, after i vowed to keep quite….to keep those things my secrets…
My dreams for the future, what i wanted to be when i grew up all stopped when i was focused on tomorrow….surviving the junk that my life had handed me and needing to be “ok” until bed time. and then once i was rested i could wake up and fake my way through another day.
As long as i could remember i just remember surviving….not like the Destiny’s Child – I’m a survivor (I’m sorry, now you will have that song in your head all day…love me for it. ;) ) but like the fight to live you see in National Geographic survival. Just waiting for another day to pass so i knew i kind of made it closer to what ever my life might become….what i might stumble into.
I fell into 24/7
I fell into working in the Nursery
I fell into lighting
I fell into social media
I fell into youth ministry
I fell into everything my life is right now
Would i go back and change it? No….because i have some things to show for it…good and bad. But it has shaped me into who i am.
But now that i am in a season in my life where i am dealing with all the crap that i was “surviving” from and i feel like i am learning to dream again. I feel like instead of surviving until tonight, or tomorrow i can actually change the way my tomorrows are…i can become who i dream about being…who God has designed for me to become.
I am learning to live…
but along with that i am learning to dream.
And i have to admit, right now i feel like there are no boundaries…i can be what i want to be….
My life is finally back in my hands. I can see past tomorrow. I can dream.
