What if it Were Possible

What if it Were...Possible that is?

“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:9

What if we dreamt dreams so big they felt nearly impossible and yet we dreamt them anyway?

            What would we accomplish? What would we bring about? What would change?

 The topic of dreaming seems to bring along with it so many hidden variables and insecurities and it makes me wonder why that is?  What is it about dreaming that is so difficult for so many of us? 

• ·       Is it that we don’t feel we deserve to dream? 

• ·       Is it that we feel if we dream for more than what we have right now, it reveals discontent, stirring up feelings of ungratefulness? 

• ·       Do  we look into the future and see that future shrinking, so why dream? 

• ·       By dreaming and acknowledging our dreams in any other form than in our mind, do we feel that we have formed a road map and suddenly we aren’t quite sure we’re ready?

This may sound crazy after all those tough questions. But dreaming always came easy for me. I had big dreams and big plans and nothing ever felt out of my reach. I loved imagining how wonderful the future would be and all that I would do.

                                                            Yep...did.  

Dreaming came easy for me, until suddenly. I can’t exactly remember when it happened but one day I realized not only did I not have the future I so excitedly sought but my dreams and desires seemed so much foggier and unattainable. 

I found myself struggling to dream at all. To see my future clearly and with excitement and passion.

                                    And I couldn’t help but wonder....what happened?

What changed in me? What made me go from someone who often envisioned wonderful and exciting dreams to someone who barely dreamed at all?

The only answer I heard was

                                                Disappointments in life! 

When we experience strings of disappointments and let downs our dreams begin to wither and drift farther and farther away until we see them no more. And we’re left believing our dreams are dead.

                                                             But the truth is.

            They don’t disappear, they don’t die. They’re just hidden....They’re just different! 

Hidden behind failures and disappointments and circumstances we couldn’t control. Different because a new time has come. Maybe an old dream can be revived but maybe a new one is waiting for your heart to awaken again. Waiting for you to believe again. To wake up and rise up and ask again.

                     And how do we awaken our hearts and stir up new or sleeping dreams?

We pray to a God who doesn’t understand the impossible. Who thrives on impossible. Who says that He is bigger and greater than anything that stands in front of us. Who takes our right hand into his and tells us not to fear. He will help us (Isaiah 41:13)

     “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:9

 God stands greater than anything that stands in our way.

Greater than the earth. Greater than the heavens. Greater than our own thoughts. We can’t even think the way He thinks.

   "Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work in us.” Ephesians 3:20

God  can do more than our small minds can fathom, immeasurably more than ALL we ask, or IMAGINE. Did you hear that? We aren’t able to even imagine the great things God can do.

I don’t know about you but my imagination is quite big and wild. Some of the things I can concoct in my mind can truly wow you or... scare you. But God dreams bigger! God thinks bigger! His plans? Bigger.

                        All we have to do is pray, trust and believe.  

Maybe it seems too hard to begin dreaming again as it stirs up emotions we would rather bury within ourselves and that’s ok.  Maybe all we need to do is simply crawl out of the disappointment pit and sit on the edge taking in the sunshine and warmth of a new day. 

            God gives us a new day everyday for new experiences and new possibilities . 

                                    All we have to do is wake up, pray up, and obey.

Heavenly Father. Today is a new day. One filled with possibilities that only you could design. Awaken my heart. Awaken my soul. Awaken the dreams you placed inside of me. Let me see through your eyes once again. Amen.