We are told to “dream big.” We are indoctrinated through movies, television, and the Internet - that “dreams” are made of leaving that job and traveling, or risking it all for that one venture and business you’ve always wanted to own.
Everyone “wishes” they could just escape and go do what they want to do for awhile.
But I think we’ve got it all wrong. Because love can’t be found in these things. True meaning and value is often right under our very noses.
Sure, we can go OFF and minister to a hurting world. But most of us live with a hurting world right in our backyard. I’m betting you have immigrants in your own city. Homeless in your own town. Sex trafficking in your state. So although it’s not BAD to go and experience the world, doing it at the neglect of where we live everyday? Might bear some deeper thinking.
What about taking that leap of faith and risking everything for your dream? Whether it’s a business, or not - it sounds dreamy. But what about our family? What about the sacrifices they have to make for US to dream selfishly for ourselves?
None of these things is bad. In fact, they are all great. It’s great to see dreams come true. Admirable. Inspirational.
But I think more often than naught, we put our wishes, dreams, and hopes in the wrong thing. We think the “dreamy” things are the things far off or that seem untouchable.
How many people DREAM of having a family?
A house?
Children?
How many dream of having a job?
How many dream of having a job?
These things we wish to escape from? Are the very things others dream of.
The 9 to 5 job isn’t something to dread. It’s something to be proud of. It takes determination, grit, perseverance, and love to support a family, to steadily hold a job.
Being home on the weekend instead of out DOING something, isn’t something to be ashamed of. It’s something to cling to.
You see, we look out into that big expanse of a world and we dream for OURSELVES. But at the end of our lives.. is it just ourselves that matter? What if it’s just ourselves and our experiences left at our death beds? No family by our sides. No legacies left. No one that we discipled or impacted in any way, shape, or form. Just experience.
We dream big. And dreaming big sometimes, is good. It’s what motivates us and gives us hope. And sometimes we are MEANT for big. But for most of us, maybe we need to start dreaming smaller. And see that those empty spots in our hearts can be filled with people living underneath our very roof. See that adrenaline can be found in laughter with the little ones in our lives, or experience can be felt in walking through the ups and downs of life with each other.
We are missing it. We are completely missing it.
Life is not out THERE. Life is right HERE. Love is right HERE. With those God has placed in our lives. In the cities in which we live.
We need to reach for it. Feel it. Experience it. And share it.
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