Hold on to your Dream

In the last few weeks I have been having a strange feeling that most of my dreams will soon come to pass. Unlike HOPE our dreams are the point of contact or mental visualisation of our hopes or desires, in a dream you see yourself there already, you get a sense of the reality of that hope or desire, that thing you have always wanted to happen to your life to give you a sense of fulfilment. Of all the things that can keep you going and hoping, your dream is the most important.

Before we get carried away with the power of your dream, it is important to ask, do you have a dream? And if the answer is yes, have you been protecting that dream? If the answer is no, well you are in trouble already. For those with dreams, it is important you safe guard your dream because everyday life and on the spiritual side the enemy wants to destroy your dream, I cannot give you a reason for this because I will have to deal with a lot of things in order to explain it but believe me your dream is not sitting there looking pretty without an attack planned on it. When you first had the dream to become a doctor, to be the most charitable person ever, to be the best dancer ever, to have the best family home, to be loved like never before and so on, most of this dreams did not just flash past they were in your heart for a very long time sometimes form childhood and sometimes from the day you decided that you knew what you wanted. But something happens that changes all that and you settle for less, without any warning you are now living a life that you never saw for yourself, a life full of “ifs” and “buts” and that life my friends is not God’s plan for you. You are beautifully and wonderfully made to be happy, fulfilled and complete in all things that pertain to life and Godliness.

So what happened? Well, we gave up, we didn’t just believe it anymore and we felt we had run out of time. You must remember that a dream keeps popping up in your heart from time to time it’s not an emotional experience it’s a genuine call to become who you should be, it’s your inner man crying out for help. Hence once you start living a life that is not yours, you find that you are unhappy most times, you have become the most cynical friend a person could have and your perception of life is negative at best


Solution
First things first, you have to know what your dream is. So in keeping with the philosophy of this blog to draw from personal experiences and from that of my close friends (not very many I must add). I found out that whenever we seem to get closer to our dream comes the most challenging time of our lives. The push and pull of life, the distraction and the fear that you may not make it, for example at the time a young man’s wife had just been transferred to another town (she had to move to secure her job or lose it) she realises that she is pregnant. Another example at the time a young man was practically willing to travel back to Africa for a woman to marry he met his soul mate here but is now thrown into a family controversy, likes of which Shakespeare will be very grateful to write about.

In all of these situations these young men and women are close to their dreams and probably the happiest they have been in years, they didn’t have to have the added stress of having to deal with distance or decisions or like the second case to deal with family issues that they know nothing about. But this is exactly why you must know in your heart that what you are about to achieve is part of your dream, you must not let up or give up, there is no such thing as easy sailing life. There is no one that will not face challenges, the issue is not the challenges you face the issue is can you hold on to that dream. I have come to the conclusion that purpose of the challenges we face is to help purify our dreams, to put the dream to the text of fire so that just like gold it will be purified and come out pure and clearer for all to see.

Your dream is yours and no one can take it from you, not even the devil. You alone can destroy it or give up on it, so you must resolve at all cost ( without becoming a freak, being sure that it is your dream not emotion) to reach the end, to live a fulfilled life even if things don’t look good at the moment. Hold on to the little sparks of light; add some oxygen to that spark at the same time diminish the value of the challenges and hold on to your dream. This is the source of true happiness and if you are happy, others around you will be happy too.