Have you ever heard that overnight successes often take years to come to fruition? Usually accompanied by lots of hard work and hard knocks.
Tonight I was thinking that, even with all of that long and winding road of an experience, there must always come a point where it’s the figurative “night before”. What does that make it — Overnight Success Eve? I don’t know. Whatever we try to call or not call it, there is always that moment even if we cannot recognize it.
So, is it the same with dreams? Sometimes we wait an awfully long time wondering if a dream will come to pass or fall by the wayside. Sometimes we can “make our dreams come true”. A good friend recently said something to this effect: a dream becomes a goal only when we set the plan in motion to achieve it. I liked that thought very much. It puts the responsibility and the accountability to me to DO SOMETHING. Oh initiative…
But sometimes there isn’t much we can do with our dreams but wait. Watch. Pray. Be patient. Wonder. Worry. Forget. Remember. Dream some more. And sometimes we find out that our dream isn’t actually the dream we thought it was. Maybe we’re not fully aware of the dream yet. Perhaps it’s not fully formed in our mind’s eye. Or maybe God’s got something in mind that we can’t even handle yet, so that part of the dream is not revealed to our hearts until the time is right.
Whatever the journey is right now, whatever the dream – big or small, we can rest assured that (as another friend said, and I re-quote frequently) God wastes nothing. If you believe Him to be the God of all the details (and I definitely do) then you get this statement. He will put all our experiences to use – especially when we let Him.
And just think…
like with the overnight successes… one morning we could wake up to find a day where a dream or two will come true. The sleep might have been fitful or beautifully restful, but the morning brings word of His unfailing love. And with that the hope of dreams realised.
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