It’s simple to neglect that need is holy, that dreaming isn’t only a human impulse—it’s a divine invitation. Over time, you might have grown cautious together with your hope. You’ve discovered the right way to be sensible, the right way to handle expectations, the right way to shield your self from the ache of disappointment. And whereas that warning could have served you for a season, God is looking you into one thing softer now. One thing extra open.
You’re nonetheless allowed to need a life that ignites your spirit. You’re nonetheless allowed to think about pleasure, to chase magnificence, to wish for the form of future that seems like a mirrored image of your coronary heart. That doesn’t imply that each door will open or that each want shall be fulfilled in the way in which you pictured it, but it surely does imply that your goals matter. It does imply that they aren’t a burden to God, that they aren’t an excessive amount of.
You don’t have to let pain define the limits of your possibility. You don’t have to silence your ardour simply because issues didn’t unfold in the way in which you had hoped they’d. God is just not punishing you for placing your soul into the world. He’s the one who planted these seeds in your coronary heart, and he has the capability to nurture what’s rising inside it—even when it appears to be like completely different than you anticipated, even whether it is taking extra time.
Your religion has made you robust. Now, let it additionally make you a protector of your individual imaginative and prescient. Let it provide the braveness to consider that life can nonetheless be filled with awe, filled with magnificence. You’re nonetheless allowed to dream—not as a result of your life is empty or void of that means with out these issues, however as a result of it is stuffed with God, and he hasn’t run out of goodness for you but.
Prayer
God, I’ve grown afraid to hope. Afraid to think about a life that seems like freedom. Afraid to consider that my passions matter to you. I need to return to that place in me that also believes. Remind me that dreaming doesn’t imply I’m ungrateful for what you might have already given me. It means I’m alive. Assist me to belief that what’s meant for me is not going to miss me—and that you’re already preparing the path for each good and delightful factor you positioned in my coronary heart so way back.
Amen.
