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Page 1 of 2 To hold a dream. Dreams, fragile moments that are often lost in a flash. They are frequently the tenuous branch we hold onto. Often the only available buoy as we feel ourselves being pulled under by the frenetic pace of our planet. We share a world, rushing headlong into a future, as indefinable as the distant galaxies caught in the eye of the Hubble telescope. And only our dreams give us hope.
As we move forward those dreams become ever more precious and necessary. They remain our only fortification against the unending bombardment of sensory input; often our only precarious grasp to joy and purpose.So what are the dreams I am speaking of here? They aren’t the imaginings and nightmares of our sleep, although they often seem to cause them. Those visions too are very important; they can help us immeasurably in finding our way through the confusion of each day. It is often those nightly imaginings that help us to discover our greater visions, as they lead us to solutions of forgiveness, release and new action. But as important as they are, those are not the dreams I speak of. They are not the goals that so many people today have learned to utilize. No, goals are tangible, realizable and somehow always believable. Generally effective goals will move us to a plan of action. “If I do A, B, and C I will arrive at D.” Even long range goals have an element of believability to them. And like those dreams we awake to that guide us forward, goals are very important, almost essential to the health of our greater dreams. But they are not the dreams I speak of. Nor are these dreams the pipe dreams that seem to consume so much of our world, the “If I had a million Dollars” kind of dreams that drive the masses to run out and buy a lottery ticket once a week. Done just on the chance that it will be the one that frees us from our drudgery this time. They aren’t those waking imaginings that we allow ourselves to have, as we stare at the clouds passing by on an early summer morning. Although, again, these creative imaginings are valuable and important, they are not the dreams I speak of. Yet these ‘fantasies’ are essential to the recognition of our, what I will call, life dreams, they are not the same. One could almost see these impractical ideas as the link between our goals and our dreams. They are essential for the setting of meaningful goals and they help us to discover our dreams. It is this process of creative imagination that sparks within us a deeper passion; it gets us in touch with what brings us alive.
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