Dusty Dreams

Ever feel like a dream is really long in happening?

I was always the kind of person who had a one year, five year and ten year plan for my life... until I had kids! Then my mindset for how I set and met goals shifted as my understanding of time shifted. I have also suffered from impatience when God has placed a dream in my heart. I always felt like if the dream was there it was for now, or should at least be achievable within the one or five year plan. That isn’t always so. There are some dreams that are promised, then get placed high up on the bookshelves of our lives, collecting dust, and seem to be forgotten, and maybe even given up on as they languish. For me one of those dreams was to complete a masters degree. There has never been enough time, or money, or energy... and that’s probably still true, but God has been pushing me to reach up high, dust off the dream and step into a new season of learning and discovery with Him. Next week I am starting a masters program through McMaster Divinity College to broaden my learning in theological studies, specifically in church and culture, and I am still in awe that I get to do this!

Do you have a dream that has been languishing and dusty? A key understanding for me that has helped me to trust God as His timing doesn’t match up with my understanding of promises and timing, is that He places our unique dreams in our hearts, they don’t originate with us. Then, as Psalm 37:4 says, “take delight in Him, and He will give you the desires of your heart”. Those desires reflect our delight in Him and His delight in us. His timing is perfect, it is not slow, even though we think it is. He is working His good out in your life! Be encouraged that this is both a promise (being worked out over time) and a reality (His goodness is right now) for you today.