ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!
MAKE THIS YOUR BEST YEAR YET!
LIFE IS NOT A DRESS REHEARSAL! (I particularly love the ones that throw in a dig about my mortality. That's uplifting.)
DREAM BIG!!!!
I am all for living with intention and purpose. I fully support anyone striving for and reaching their goals. I absolutely believe it is always best to set your mind on all that is good, excellent, lovely and wonderful (Philippians 4:8). I would much rather see people go into the New Year with energy and enthusiasm than with dread and dismay.
But...
What if I don't want to dream big?
What if I really just kinda want to dream medium? Or even small? Or even teeny tiny?
Is that so terrible?
First, let's just get out of the way that ANYTHING is not possible. No matter how badly I might want to (and I so badly do NOT want to) I cannot get up out of this chair and go run a marathon. I cannot. No amount of wishing or determination can make it so. I have not trained, prepared or planned to keep these legs moving at an above-walking pace for anywhere close to 26.2 miles. It will not happen. At least not today (or ever, just so we are clear).
I am not going to go to sleep tonight and wake up tomorrow and find that Jack's room has been painted. (Yeah, I'm going to keep beating that dead horse until someone shows up here demanding to paint his bedroom just so I will stop talking about it. Sherwin Williams "Mindful Gray" looks nice. Just in case you were wondering.)
We are not children. We all know that in reality ANYTHING is not possible without adequate planning, preparation, skill, talent, opportunity and good luck. Certainly faith plays a critical role in the realization of any dream, but God gave us each unique gifts for a reason. He doesn't expect a duck to go out and try and be a wolf (thank goodness, because the duck would be eaten immediately). We gotta do the best with what we've been given. We have to be the best gosh darn duck we can be.
I admire the people today and throughout history who have dreamed really big dreams. People who shake up and transform the world. Truly, thank God for the big dreamers.
But I keep hoping that God didn't mean for every single one of us to shake up the world. I mean, if you have too many world shakers wouldn't we all start feeling like we are a bunch of kernels of corn in a bag of Jiffy Pop? Everybody exploding and bouncing into one another with no rhyme or reason until we are just a big pile of ideas and plans and programs with nobody left to simply cook dinner, or teach a Sunday school class, or meet a hurting friend for coffee?
Life is in the small stuff, too.
In fact, I would say most of life is in the small stuff.
I dream that this year my children will continue to succeed and be happy in school.
I dream that the children I teach at church will know that I love them and, more importantly, that God loves them.
I dream that my husband will reap a bountiful harvest from all the seeds of diligence, steadfastness and devotion he has sown.
I dream that we will all laugh a lot this year.
I dream the Seahawks will win the Super Bowl. (C'mon...I had to put that in there!)
I dream that both myself and others will be blessed by my One Word.
I dream that Ben will let me get another dog (what is wrong with me?!)
I dream that through my words and actions I will help to make my corner of the world kinder, safer and more abundantly joyful for everyone.
Those are my medium dreams.
I have this idea that maybe if enough of us dream and pursue and attain a whole bunch of medium dreams, those medium dreams will join together to create one big mega-dream! Don't you think?
I do.
I think that's how we medium dreamers make our own mark on the world. We each tend to our little corners of the world and pretty soon you add 'em all up and we circle the globe. One corner at a time.
Dream medium. I believe in you.
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