| | Good book: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausche. Randy Pausche was a professor at Carnegie Mellon U and had terminal cancer. He writes about achieving all of his childhood dreams.
Lately that's what God's been telling me. Don't give up my childhood dreams, as selfish as they may be. Don't stop dreaming. KEEP DREAMING!! Dreaming implies faith.
Pauch also wrote about how we should enable other people's dreams as well. This is something I feel passionately about. Encouraging people to be all that they were made to be. However, I never say anything untrue just to make people feel better.
It saddens me when people laugh at other people's desires and dreams. I take offense on behalf of the person being laughed at. Growing up in such a limited environment really discouraged me. I'm still discouraged. I still feel behind. But I want to overcome with faith. Pauch said that brick walls are there so that we can prove how badly we want things.
"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity."
Prepare. I want to show God how badly I want something, but also remember and keep in check that it is still God I'm serving, not myself. But I realize as humans and the nature of dreaming in itself prevents us from doing this 100%. But that's the beauty of gifts and blessings. He gives even if it means he doesn't get anything back, even if it means we end up serving ourselves at times.
In the past I often dreamed with the motive of glorifying myself. To be in the spotlight and all... to feel better and more talented than other people, to feel superior.
I don't want that anymore. I still want some of my old dreams to come true, but I want to use them for other things instead of using them solely for my personal glory and to raise my self esteem.
I learned that whenever God gives you something, he puts more responsibility on you, he expects MORE from you... to use your skills, talents and experiences for God and for others, on top of enjoying it yourself. I think God wants us to realize that first. THEN, the action can start...if you dare to believe. I definitely would not have been able to handle that responsibility had I achieved my dreams in the past.
Also I heard somewhere that, "We always get what we want, just not in the way we expect it." Sometimes we think we want something when our hearts just wants something else and we misinterpret that.... like if someone thinks she wants to become an actress... maybe what she really wants is to be confident. This concept totally confuses my dreams.
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