When It’s Time to Dream Bigger

I’m 41 and I just realized God has given me everything I’ve ever wanted. In a way, I have finally “arrived” at my desired destination marked by:

• A healed heart? Check.
• A loving husband? Check.
• An adorable child? Check.
• A peaceful home? Check.
• Sufficient finances? Check.
• Loyal friends? Check.
• Closeness with God? Check.

I have to be honest: it feels AMAZING to larrive”. I have been living in the joy of receiving everything my heart has ever desired for several weeks now. I’ve been drinking it in, and soaking in every moment by making sure to be present in it.

But soon, my place of arrival will feel like it’s my new “normal”, like it has become my new place of departure—and then what?

When I’ve spent all of my adult life trying to achieve this seemingly unachievable dream of all those amazing things in my list above and I finally achieved it, what is there left to do?

Lots of people discover that they have this problem around my age. (Ever heard of a “midlife crisis”? This is one cause of it.) If I followed their examples of how to cope with having achieved my dreams, I could:

• Go bigger: a bigger house, a bigger car, a bigger family, a bigger friend group
• Go for a change: a change of house, a change of family, a change of profession, a change of scenery
• Go for broke: feel disappointed about having achieved all my dreams too early in life, and destroy it all
• Get stuck: try to stay in this moment forever by never growing, never changing, always doing the same thing, and wondering why it no longer fills me

Why It’s Important to Dream Bigger

Instead, I am so grateful that God has already been teaching me how to DREAM BIGGER. You see, God knows how he/she made us: if we aren’t growing, we’re dying; if we aren’t moving forward, we’re moving backward. There is no standing still.

“…if we aren’t growing, we’re dying; if we aren’t moving forward, we’re moving backward. There is no standing still.”

Tenay Benes, tenaybenes.com

So… for the past two years, God has been preparing me for this moment by inviting me to dream with my husband; and let me tell you, my husband is the KING of dreaming big. I didn’t really realize just how big until this past year when I mentioned to him that I was afraid of how big my dreams were getting and he replied, “Well, that’s the level where my dreaming starts…” 😮

I didn’t know dreaming was so important to living out the full gospel but it is! In fact, we can only see God’s perfect will for Earth when we dream with the God whose Kingdom is in Heaven. Our dreams must be so big that they can only be accomplished through the intervention of and collaborating with God! God-sized dreams are scary, and they’re supposed to be.

In what area of your life do you feel like you have “arrived”? What kind of dreams might God have for that part of your life in your next season? I dare you to DREAM BIG WITH GOD!