Do You Value Your Dreams?

Dionna Sanchez wrote this beautiful post today: To Go Forward, Sometimes You Have to Go Back. I think the hardest part of being middle-aged is that realization that many of your dreams will never come true. Life is hard. God puts you on alternate paths (no doubt better for your eternal development). Sometimes, it hardly seems worth it to dream at all because it only leads to disappointment. Yet, even with that reality, I do feel it is still beneficial to dream and work for things (at least on my good days), even if they don't turn out quite the way one hopes.

Dionna offers a good reminder of the value of dreams:

Sometimes we sit on the turf God has given us, and we wonder why we can’t move forward. Why we can’t seem to catch a break. We get frustrated over our lack of progress, blessings, or adventures in life. Maybe it’s because we need to go backwards in our past a little bit and reclaim what we set aside along the way? Maybe it’s because we forgot that we already knew how to dream, take risks, believe in the impossible, and love the unloveable? Maybe we need to remember how it felt to pursue life with abandon?

If we want to go forward, we might just need to go backwards a little bit. It might be scary at first – but I think we will find the freedom we’ve been searching for all along as we rediscover how it feels to have the pure and genuine heart of a child.