"Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn." Isaiah 51:1
It's not lost on me today that I was watching the christening of the Disney Dream cruise ship while I was thinking about today's devotion. The ceremonial champagne bottle was filled not with champagne but with dreams of adventure and friendship and all the things I want for my own life. I could feel the excitement of all the people who are aboard the maiden voyage and as a self-proclaimed Disney addict, I wanted to be on board with them. There's something about the Disney brand of magic that keeps me entranced and going back time after time. Everything seems possible there.
So it shouldn't surprise anyone that one of the few things remaining on my bucket list is to work at Disney World even if it's just for a few weeks once in my life. I want to make people's dreams there come true just as other cast members have done for me. That might not happen this year or next but "a dream is a wish your heart makes" and my heart has kept that one for a long time. In the meantime, I keep trying to work toward that goal.
But even that doesn't seem like it's "big enough" or is it? How big should dreams be? How lofty should your goals be to honor and bring glory to God? Not everyone can be Mother Theresa or Martin Luther King. Since Monday's quote about service by Martin Luther King was posted, I've been trying to look at whether or not there's one act of service each day in my life or one way in which I've paid forward the blessings that I have received. It might be as small as preparing a nice meal for my family or making sure my daughter has clean basketball socks for the game but those count, right?
So maybe it's time to find a quiet moment and really think about the goals and vision I have set forth for myself or need to dream. I don't want to be limited by my own imagination if God can dream so much bigger for me.
If you want to watch the christening, here's a link: http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/01/disney-dream-christening-webcast/
Skip the Disney cruise. (too many forced interactions with people...but maybe--as introverted me who wouldn't take a cruise if you paid me--I'm biased.)
ReplyDeleteInstead, plan a couples' getaway (leave the girls with the grandparents) to Panama. It sounds to me like you need to recalibrate your "play" button (i.e. just cuz you are "an adult" doesn't mean you have to give up that free, spontaneous, playful part of you.)Where did "YOU" go? When did your life get so friggin' serious?
Clean basketball socks? You are stressing over that? Give me a break. You are in serious need of time away for yourself...or meds for clinical depression. (or both)