Everything starts off as something small. A tiny seed can be planted to grow into an enormous redwood tree. The seeds you eat from your fruit have the capability of producing an entirely new plant to grow hundreds more of that fruit for generations. Given the proper care and attention, the tiniest of ideas, the most insignificant of circumstances can lead you into something much, much greater.
We all have ideas. We could probably all be millionaires by now with all the ideas we have that someone else ends up thinking up later and patenting, like having caps at the bottom of shampoo bottles and having something to cut your Seran wrap built straight into the box. The problem with the blossoming of most of these ideas is that we don't know where to take them. We admit from the start that we have no way to come through to the finish of these projects and decide that it's not worth our efforts. The fear of failure is binding, the final nail in the coffin of so many dreams.
I was driving from the OARDC with my mom and the mutt the other day, coming from a refreshing walk among dandilions. (Yes, you read that right.) And as we were passing a church, I cannot remember the name of it, I took a quick glance over at the sign out front and read these words:
ARE YOUR DREAMS AS BIG AS YOUR GOD?
And it stuck with me.
I was challenged at the beginning of the summer to dream big. So I took on the challenge and dreamed big. Now, a month and a half later, I sit here wondering what went wrong. What I so desperately wanted to accomplish is falling apart around my ears. Am I a perfectionist...do you know my dad? Haha! Yes, I am slightly, so maybe it's not as bad as I think it is now, but last night I fell into a state of total defeat. I felt lost.
I cried.
I'm not one to do such a thing. I usually just suck it up and stick it out. What happens, happens. But in that single moment, the full weight of the stresses of life, the expectations and pressures and the fear of the unknown crushed me. I felt helpless. But when I woke up this morning, the words on the church sign blazed in my mind. Am I going to let that stop me? Are my dreams as big as my God?
Years ago, there was a man preparing his final project to earn his PhD. A buisiness man. He presented his ideas and was told that it his idea would never work, it was doomed for failure, so he didn't pass. The PhD was denied him. But he didn't let their words stop him. He went out and did it anyway. He started from scratch and built the company from the ground up, using the exact details that he had written and presented that were not approved of.
The company flourished. It gives a government established service quite the run for it's money. He took the same papers, the very project he had put together years before and presented them one more time saying "Give me my PhD. I did it."
The company? FedEx.
Are we going to allow defeat to crush us? When put down, when knocked to our knees, we are in the perfect position to pray. So pray. And get up, and try again.
If we believe that God really is as big as we say He is, nothing we do, if in accordance to His will can be stopped. If we truly believe that we can do all things through the strength given to us through Christ, then we have nothing to fear.
So dream big! And don't let the scowls and taunts of others tear you down. The summer isn't over yet, the year isn't over yet. Your life isn't over yet either. You have plenty of opportunities spread out before you to make use of. So grab on and take the ride of your lifetime! Be unstoppable because you have faith in yourself because you have faith in Him. He will be your strength, He will give you what you need, when you need it. He is faithful. He is loving. And He is strong. Impossible is only a state of mind.
Take heart, and fly.
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