Unpack Your Dreams

"For I am about to do something new.  See, I have already begun!  Do you not see it?  I will make a pathway through the wilderness.  I will create rivers in the dry wasteland."  --Isaiah 43:19NLT

Oh, this is going to be more difficult than I thought.  Dreams?  I've completely lost track of my dreams.  I used to have them, I think.  I don't think dreaming about new living room furniture is exactly what the author had in mind.  "He wants to pour out His far and beyond favor on you" - Ephesians 2:7 surely can't be about upgrading the bathrooms.  I can remember dreaming about getting married and having children.  I even remember dreaming about my first home.  Sometimes, I feel a little dream bubbling up inside and then I think of all the reasons why I can't go after it.  Who would take care of the kids while my husband is pursuing his dream?  Or, that's too big a dream.  Try to dream of a decluttered home that gives me peace?  Why should everyone in the house be forced to live the way I want if the clutter doesn't bother them? 

I should be dreaming bigger.  If I'm looking for my best life in the one that I have then there have to be big dreams that I could still reach.  Well adjusted, self-confident children?  There's still time.  Rejuvenating my marriage?  A strong possibility.  There still has to be something that I could dream of for myself.

This is going to take some work.