Well, the dream is getting closer. You are walking a path that has taken you down many unexpected roads. You have encountered border bullies, border busters, champions, wasteland, sanctuary, giants and now you are looking at the land of Anybodies.
Rich Wilkinson, in his book The Dream Giver, indicates this is a land that we all come to. It is a place where there are hurting and wounded people. It's a place where there are happy and satisfied people. It is a land where we wonder and explore and meet people. At first, we just believe we are passing through. We are off to reach our Big Dream.
However, maybe the Land of Anybodies is not temporary. Maybe you begin to see needs and realize that the anybodies need your gifts and talents. You begin to recognize the potential in this land and you begin to realize that this is your Promise Land - but it is your job to develop it to look like your Big Dream. You see all the needs - and yet, all the potential. The Dream Giver begins to reveal to you that you don't arrive at your Promise Land to see a completed dream. You arrive in your Promise Land to develop and live your Big Dream.
How do you develop your Dream? You start by meeting the need of the person closest to you and then the person next to him, and then the person next to him......pretty soon, your influence on the lives of others will develop into your big dream. Then as you begin to see needs that you don't have the ability to meet, the Dream Giver will connect you to other dreamers that will have new resources and talents that will help you build. After a time, you will look and realize you have been living in your Promise Land and your Big Dream will take shape.
Our dreams and our plans are like anything else. They take time to develop. How you start is not how it will look in the end. It takes time. It takes diligence. It takes focus. Don't give up in the Land of Promise just because it doesn't look the way you thought it would. It will if you will just take the time to live it out.
One other thought about living out your dream is this - there is more to it than you can imagine. The Dream Giver allows us to see as much as we can handle. Your dream will never be "completed" or "finished" because the Dream Giver will continue creating and designing your dream right in front of you. There will be aspects you have not thought of. There will be people you didn't know needed your gift. There will always be something new on the horizon.
Live out your dream! Don't give up. Don't become discouraged. Don't throw in the towel. There are people out there waiting for the dream inside of you to be fulfilled because they need what you have. Be someone's Champion. God desires for you to fulfill every dream and plan that He has placed in you. He created you to live life to the fullest! So go Dream Big! Go fulfill Big Dreams! Go help someone else fulfill their Big Dream! There's a great big world out there just waiting for you! Go get it!!!
Be Encouraged,
Steph
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