I don’t know if you are anything like me, but life gets busy doesn’t it?
Between work and family time, school pick ups and drop offs, church time and quiet time and maybe a workout or two if it is a good week….finding time to “dream” can seem burdensome and impossible.
I found myself in that very place recently….having just defined my dream and started a new blog and no sooner was overcome with all it might take to make it possible.
I felt the pressure to write and have wonderful content for my readers and I had nothing.
So I stopped writing. I took a break and felt like maybe I wasn’t “supposed” to write if I weren’t inspired.
But dream chasing takes a little work on our parts doesn’t it?! (<==== Click to Tweet)
I was missing a critical component in my dreaming….I had stopped talking to God about the details.
It had become MY dream and MY blog and MY words.
No wonder things went stale so fast!
When we forget the One who made the dream possible in the first place we can find ourselves chasing our tails.
I love this wisdom from Holley’s devotional: “Because here’s the reality: if your God-sized dream, is truly from Him, then there is time for it in your life. It may take some creativity, saying no to other commitments, or just plain ol’ perseverance, but you can make it happen.”
Making time, building it into our schedules WILL take some work.
Sometimes it means we have to get up an extra half hour early so we have quiet time to write, or read God’s word. Or as Gindi reminded us last week, we may have to say no to the better right now so we can say yes to His best for our lives later.
This God-sized dreaming isn’t promised to be easy….much like our walk here on earth, there will be ups and downs and sacrifices along the way.
But ultimately the goal is to use these God-sized dreams to honor God.
If we can remember that we are headed in the right direction!
What “thing” makes it feel like this dreaming business is impossible right now? Please share it in the comments below so that we can be in prayer over you!!
Photo Credit: Martin Pettitt
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This week we ask “How can you make time for your God-sized dream?”
Share your story on your blog and link up with other God-sized dreamers below.
{For those who don’t have a blog, we invite you to share in the comments or on Facebook.}
Let’s all display the link up photo so we can find each other! Click here for link.
For next week, we’ll be writing about the times God calls us to lay our dreams down.
Is there something God is calling you to release? What have you already laid down?
We’ll meet back here next Tuesday and share our posts and comments.
{Prompts are from Chapters 9 and 10 of Holley’s devotional, Opening the Door to Your God-Sized Dream.}
The thing that totally makes my God-dream seem impossible right now is totally finding the $30K I need to go back to school…I’ve been accepted and I really do know (in my heart and trying to get it into my HEAD!) where God wants me to go (Messiah College), My husband doesn’t want me to have to take out loans at this point in our lives but there is no extra $ for me to go to school in our budget either. And yet, I know that if God wants me to do this (which He SEEMS to!) then I will be able to….
Leslie – I am praying that God makes a way in a big, unimaginable, only God sort of way!!
Beautiful post, my friend! So grateful to know I’m not alone in this rough stage. Time is always an issue lately, but like you said, it’s the little sacrifices that make a huge difference 🙂 Thanks for the reminder 🙂
Never alone Lisa!! Right there with you and so grateful to be walking this busy, crazy life with you! 🙂
Umm Kristin? Can I be honest here? I didn’t write a post on this topic because well, I’m still working through this. As God deals with me on resting, I just didn’t have the answer to the question of how do we make time for our dreams. YOU my friend, nailed it! You said exactly what God wanted me to hear today! Admitting I don’t have all the answers, yet He does: awesome! Watching Him confirm to my weary heart that finding rest & quiet times with Him is key to fulfilling my dreams, is priceless! Thank you so much for shedding like on this topic for me. It was a hard one for me to write-because this whole rest thing is such a fresh concept for me, however, God used you to speak to my heart today. Thank you! ♥
Oh rest can be SO hard can’t it?! Like our time is valuable only if we are doing something “important”! Ha!! 🙂 So glad that you are being obedient to God and finding time for rest!!
I don’t even know where to start. This last year has been incredibly difficult-actually the last couple of years have been difficult. I’ve had three separate accidents over the last 16 months; each one has put me on the sidelines for days or weeks. My mother passed last August and six months and five days after she passed, my father passed away.
Shortly after my mother passed away, I felt like God was telling me to get my priorities straight. In order to do that, I cleared everything off my plate-church work, my editing company, the book I’m writing-everything. I thought during this time that I would hear God’s voice saying “This is what I want you to do,” or “Go in this direction.” But I heard nothing. So after the holidays, I began to write again (although not on my book) and a couple of weeks ago, I accepted a new client for my editing company. There are times I’m not even sure what the dream is anymore. I truly do not mean for this to sound like a pity party, or that I’m complaining. I’m just asking you to pray that God will speak so clearly to me that it would be as if He was writing on the wall. Thank you,
I can so understand not knowing exactly what the dream is….I will be praying for you! I have always said if God would just leave me a message on one of those Amber Alert signs along the highway I would be ok because THEN I would know what His plan was… 🙂 He doesn’t always work in my time…but His timing always ends up being perfect!
Kristin,
I love the “leave me a message on the Amber Alert sign,” because I always said “I need to see the handwriting on the wall.” 🙂 You are so right – His timing is perfect. What ever He wants me to do, whenever He wants me to do it, will be the right time. It doesn’t matter what age I just turned – God can use me until the day He calls me home.
Thanks for your encouraging words and prayers!!
Wonderful post.
Thank you Denise!!
I can be a romantic, which sometimes means unrealistic. One of the romantic notions I’ve got to let go of is that just because God’s behind my dream, I shouldn’t have to work too hard. That I should be able to stand back and just be amazed at what God is doing. But actually, it may be that I have to step up and then be amazed at what God chooses to do through me, with me. If that makes any sense…