Rediscover the Value of Dreaming

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A young man onboard the Mercy Ships Anastasis told me one day that he went to speak with the Chaplain about a girl he liked. The Chaplain asked him if he had told the girl he liked her. He said no. The Chaplain sent him off telling him to come back after he spoke with the girl. The Psalmist says that God wants to give the desire of our hearts. The problem is that we need to tell him what we desire.

We are basically in the end of the first month of the New Year, but have you stopped to think of what do you hope for in 2013. What are the dreams and expectations you want to happen this year? In a “do” culture dream, especially day dreaming, has a bad reputation. However, dream is an integral part of hope, that internal desire for something to happen that leads us to plan and act toward making the dream a reality.

This week we commemorated Martin Luther King Day who is well known by his the civil right movement involvement and the speech “I had a Dream”. This iconic speech has inspired many to dream of a better society as it reflects on injustice and inequality issues.

Both words dream and hope can be either a noun or a verb. Dictionary.com defines dream as “a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep”, or “a vision voluntarily indulged while awake”, and hope as “the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best.”

I have the habit of writing things down on a notebook. Time to time I review what I wrote and discover how much of the things I hoped for or dreamed about become reality. Jesus tells us to ask and it will be given to you. Put in paper or electronic notes what you hope or dream for and let’s rediscover the value of dreaming.

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