Why is your dream worth pursuing, fighting
for and seeing through no matter what happens? What a great question to get you
to really evaluate the next step. It is funny that I was ready to just give up
and let this blog “go away” and let the younger sister dreamers carry on. What
could possibly be a God-sized dream for me? Two comments were given at just the
right moment and just the perfect words that I needed to hear. I seem to be
someone that needs a cheering section to tell me that I can do this and that
God is not finished with me yet! So once I got my head on straight and started
to think of this Dream thing in a new way not the finished goal {way to
overwhelming} but the way that God leads me to the goal. {I know you are saying
is she going to answer the question or just ramble?}
First I needed to see the dream, a dream,
something that I wanted more than anything and then a dreamer sent a comment
that said think of one word that would be my goal. Hmmm that seemed easy and
the word was KNOW. More than anything on the planet I want to KNOW God. I want
to know what He is like when I am joyful, know what he is like when I am
frightened, know what he is like when I mess up, in all the situations of my
life. To know what he means when he says I am His Beloved.
OK, now to start down that road of Knowing,
This is so worth pursuing, it excites me to think of God so close I can hear
Him whisper he loves me, always has since the beginning of time. How I want to
know Him so much better! I want to read His love letters to me about what He
and His Father have been doing. I want to know what he would do in this
situation or how he would deal with that problem. I want to know how to please
him with every breath I take.
How could you not want to fight to know the
love of your life no matter what? I am going through a very difficult time
right now and I am striving to see just how this KNOWing will lead me through.
It has given me a whole new way to look at how He would deal with this, no
watching how He IS dealing with this and how He still has His arms wrapped
around me keeping me safe through it all. Oh yes, this is so worth fighting
for, to Know!
I love this post. To learn to 'know' God seems like such a simple thought but it is SO huge! Knowing and growing closer to Him is lifechanging. Huge prayers for you Maggie as you continue your dream :)
ReplyDeleteA verse that came to mind while reading your post was Exodus 14:14 "The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still" (some versions say 'silent'). I just love that thought. That He waits until we stop trying to complete our version of best and then steps in to complete His version of best, which is so beyond anything we could imagine!
Thank you so very much for your beautiful words. I thought all day about how the Lord is fighting for me. How truly awesome is our God. Blessings to you!
DeleteI love your word: KNOW. You know what? Absolutely NO ONE or NOTHING can block that dream!! That really speaks to me that I might need to rethink my dream a little. Mine is more tangible (I want to go somewhere and do something....this can be blocked.) However, if I boil my dream down to the core, what is it? Thanks, for getting me to think!! Blessings to you!
ReplyDeleteI also love the name of your blog! :)
DeleteThank you for helping me to feel that I am on the right track {finally}
DeleteThe name is what my name means and how I feel about what God says about me. Thanks for noticing.
Knowing God! You said it so perfectly -- knowing Him when you are joyful and when you feel frightened. I understand. I have been there: I am there. Thank you for sharing your heart. Prayers are being said for you as I sit here. Much love to my sister-dreamer: we are never too old, or too sick, or too sad, or too anything to dream of knowing God, of trusting Him in everything.
ReplyDeleteI am learning the truth of your words. I used to just say them but now they are becoming a part of who I really am. Thank you for your sweet words of encouragement.
DeleteThank you for sharing your dream so exquisitely. You have a beautiful way with words. Words expressing how I too have felt at this stage in my life. We definitely have "Seasons" in our faith walk as well as our physical life. Praying for you my sister dreamer..... that He, the Lord, will reveal something about Himself to you today that btings you to your feet to to honor and worship Him and then to your knees in awe and gratitude.
ReplyDeleteYour prayers were answered today! As we were in Bible study God kept impressing on me to say a particular statement about Him. I finally complied and the young mother sitting next to me was near tears and exclaim that Yes there is hope in our world today. We serve an mighty God. Getting to know just how powerful He truly is that words can help another sister dreamer is so very exciting. Thank you for your precious words that brought tears to my eyes of such gratitude that there are others who are so loving and caring. Blessings on you.
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