Don’t Give Up on the Way to Your Dreams

Today I’m thankful for everything that has been going on in my life.

Last week, I made a post saying I was more eager than ever before, even if that day also had me feeling like something was missing.

This week doesn’t feel like that, and I’m happy and feel what I need to feel all around me.

One word of advice I can give from what I’ve learned is God is not silent and is always actively working behind the scenes for our ultimate good.

Our dreams will happen, even if they take many years.

Don’t take silence as not caring, or an “if he wanted to, he would” type of deal.

I’m telling you right now there’s nothing God wants more than to do that thing you’re waiting for.

But we also must remember we might not be good enough for the dreams we’re praying for just yet. For me, I believe I write incredibly well—although that doesn’t mean I’ll be the next big author even at my current station. God has given me a gift, so, to phrase it in a way that makes sense—what can God do with what you have?

The world needs that light more than anything, and God has a way of planning out your life for the best results. We must always give God credit for our gifts, no matter what we do with them or cannot do.

I can’t shake this feeling I have, though. I feel it in my spiritual bones that I’ll be doing what I want to do at the level I want to reach sooner than I had thought.

People can say what they want, but I will continue to work. Those people who God has graced with their positions of influence and filling the world with their light were given that, because God knew the world needed that light only they could provide.

I’m not in this for money or fame. I want to do for others what stories have done for me. Those moments where I had read a passage, or had heard a song, or had watched a love story that rent my heart to pieces with joy or sorrow that moved me to feel something deeper than my normal and temporal experience.

That moment where Anakin sees the error of not forgiving himself in the original trilogy and says that Luke had already saved him. That was far more powerful than “No, I am your father.”

The moments at the lake in Macalania Woods when Tidus and Yuna speak before one of my favorite scenes in the series—where Yuna entertains Tidus’s sentiments after he asks for her forgiveness for not realizing the truth about her pilgrimage, but she has a duty to fulfill and says, “I just can’t. I can’t go….”

When Snape reveals his patronus is the same as Lily Potter’s, it reveals so much more than his love for Lily. It showed that he had accepted her choice to be with James because her doe complimented his stag. The author said one of theirs changed when they fell in love with each other, meaning at some point, despite that love, Snape had to have accepted her choice. It shows a remnant of love and an acceptance of her choices. That’s genius writing.

The impact of Jack Sparrow and Will Turner’s sword fight when Jack says, “This shot is not meant for you.” So much storytelling in just that one line after an amazingly choreographed scene.

I wrote stories as a kid, filling up notebooks with world-crossing adventures, portal fantasies, and magic gemstones that could only be accessed in graveyards.

I want to have my own moments like those I just listed. I want to do what those moments have done for me and for others.

From an early age, I aspired to be a writer.

I’m of the belief that God places dreams in our hearts for a reason.

It’s up to us to find that light within ourselves and prepare it for others to illuminate their lives.

What is it you’re meant to do?

How can you get there, and are you visualizing it?

Realizing that the dream is attainable even if not always with your own strength?

Believe in yourself, know full well you can achieve so much more.

Your dreams are just around that hardest step, that turn of the corner, and the hard work that gets those who do what they do where they are.

If you can dream it, understand it can be done for you.

It might take a few more years, or it might be six months out.

Whatever the case, God wants to bless you with opportunity and the light to brighten up your path.

Stay positive as much as possible.

Don’t give up in the middle of the journey.

Become who you’re meant to be as you approach the destination, with the destination in mind, yet realizing it’s also about who you’re becoming along the way.

I hope God blesses you this week and gives you a little wink from on high.

Stick to your path and be patient in the unfolding.