Dare to Dream

"“Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead and keeps the desire alive." -The Sacred Romance by Brent Curtis and John Eldredge


I remember vaguely sitting on a rock on a point that jutted out into the ocean during my time in Maui. I remember, I was sitting alone; I had gone there to sit with God. It was my last few weeks on the island and I was taking time just to thank God for the season He had given me there. In that moment, with my eyes closed, I heard God's voice asking me to simply open my eyes and look around me. I did and I fell into an even deeper praise for Him, thanking Him for considering me worthy to share this paradise with, flirting with the idea that He even created this for the purpose of my enjoyment.

God caught my heart just then and again I heard Him speak. There was no mistaking his voice. He called out to me, with a sort of passion and power that only the Lord could speak. The Lord said,

"Oh, what your eyes will see! This is just the beginning!"

Almost a year has passed since that conversation with God and the pains of life have caused me to push that deeply within myself, almost forgetting the promise entirely. My passion is not gone, but tamed and there's a stillness to me that I have to confess I know to be far less than what God has created me for.

Words of friends, family and the little voice in my head have offered reason to why those dreams need to pass away. I fought it for a time, until I grew too weary and gave in. I admitted to myself that.. perhaps.. I'm holding a breakable promise. I'm allowing desire to be my God.

God cried out again and reminded me, but I ignored it and so as recently as a few months ago, the last of it was silenced. I ignored the promise once more.

Today I was reading a book, The Sacred Romance by Brent Curtis and John Eldredge, and God showed me again that these dreams are what He gave me. I can never dream bigger than He does. I can never ask too much of Him. He longs to bless me, to take me on the very same adventures that my heart longs for, because that longing was created by Him.

He wants to prepare me for these adventures. He wants me to search my heart, to grow in relationship with Him, to be prepared to go wherever He takes me, but never does He ask me to cease to dream! Yes, my dreams may change and some may pass away as I am refined, but only to make way for greater dreams still. The dreams that the Lord dreams for me are so much larger than the dreams I could ever dream for myself. I submit to that truth and still, I dream.

Don't let your passion fade away. Don't silence it like it is some childish immature bit of you that refuses to submit to reason. God does not move in reason. God is BEYOND reason. God moves in love. Don't let the everyday trials, tribulations and even the routines take from you the very passion that God has instilled in you.

You are created as a passionate being! Run with your passion! Dream with your passion! Dare to dream!