Don’t stop dreaming

Many have lost the ability to dream. We make the error in linking our reality with the ability to dream. Dreams are lofty, outside the bounds, not necessarily toeing the norm. The fact is if a dream toes the norm, then it won’t really be a dream. A dream is something, an experience, a future happening, depicted as eventualities that take place, brought about by activities out of the normal consciousness. Unfortunately, many of us limit our dreams because we do not have enough money or the needed experience that would project us to attaining the dreams. We cut those dreams short because we just cannot see ourselves out of the familiar and the known.

Unfortunately many have died in the grave of familiarity and the well-worn path. Only if they had kept dreaming. Only if they had kept the dream alive.

But what if you could dream? What if you could allow yourself to go there! Go there. Think of yourself as more, doing more. Think of yourself with a different color hair; the color you have always silently wanted. Think of yourself in that outfit, maybe it is too loud for your introvert personality, and outrageously expensive for your meager wallet. Think of yourself in another city, on the Tube in London maybe, visiting Soho, walking down Notting Hill or even gleaning the wares at Camden market. I have lived in Florida for the past 12 years. I am dreaming again. I see a throwback to twenty five thirty years ago. There I was visiting HMV in London’s Oxford Street, going through LPs and CDs. Listening to the new music that had just hit the Top Ten back then. Another one of my dreams is to visit London, and walk down Reagents Street, visit Hamleys during Christmas time and breathe in and exhale. Another dream is to walk down Strand in London, and visit some theatres. I would want to camp out in NYC for a short while, and write a piece on the many lives that thread the roads looking for a promising day. I am dreaming of a book deal! Yeah! Just a few of my dreams. Think of yourself eating a beautiful dinner in a French restaurant, listening to the French turn their words in their mouths as dough turns in a Kitchen Aid on your counter top. Yes, and eat a French stick while you are there dipping it into a bowl of warm soup. And so what stops you? Your job? Your family? Finances?

Maybe lack of finances and life itself has arrested your dreams. Maybe those dreams have gone dim and dim over time, and have now become an imagination in your head. Maybe you just refuse to dream, because dreaming is painful now; the disappointments of attaining are just too great. Do not die without living even close to your dream. What can you do that is near enough to your dream that will not cost an arm and leg?

God gave Joseph a dream that he would one day be so influential that his brothers would bow to him. Even his parents would bow. He could not see this dream because the opposite was his natural; he hardly had any influence since he was the youngest of the lot, and greatly despised. But Joseph was a dreamer. His dream was not in the hand of any of his brothers. The dream was in his heart. And so he did not let his natural stop him, and certainly not what others thought of him or did to him. It occurs to me that it is us that possess the power to kill the dream that might burn in us. Not our friends, not family, not circumstances; us.

When you stop believing and stop dreaming – you kill the dream.

Please dream…

Linda Faith

Linda faith is the Editor in Chief of Jewels Magazine. She co-pastors along with her husband Revival Worship Church, Tampa. She is a prolific writer and powerful speaker, inspiring many women to be all God has called them to be. She is the founder of Joy Women’s conference which reaches out to empower, inspire and motivate women in their faith walk. She was a software developer before she started writing.

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