Wednesday's thoughts

Our Dreams Become Us

We establish our dreams. We put them out and talk about them. We line up a process by which the dreams can be accomplished and we work to see to it that they are accomplished.

Our church looks to its future. It thinks about where it is and where it needs to be. It makes decisions about its future and it makes plans to do what can be done so that the dreams come true.

Dreams are established so that we can work toward them. In a way we objectify our dreams. They are something we strive toward. They are out there in the future somewhere, somehow.

There is another aspect of our dreams; it is the effect the dream has on us. It is the way in which we are changed by the dreams we dare to have. The dream will change as we become involved with it and as our life experience dictates that we modify it. New occasions teach new duties.

The part of our dreaming that needs to be noted is the way in which we change because of the dreams we dare to have. We become our dream as we dream it. Our dream becomes us. Our striving take us into new areas of thinking and living and being.

As we look forward to the way things can be and as we think about becoming part of a future that is very much unlike the past. We dare to dream and we know that something in our state of being will change as well.

What are your dreams?
How will your dreams change you?

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Charles Schuster