Image Contemplation - Dreamers

Sometimes it sucks to be a dreamer.⁣

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The year is about to end… and a new one is about to begin….

and maybe you still feel the weight of your dreams.

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Things you’d hoped you’d accomplish. ⁣A life you hoped was possible. ⁣Situations you hoped would flourish. ⁣

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Maybe some of those have happened. But probably a lot of them didn’t turn out the way you thought.⁣ This year didn’t turn out the way we thought!⁣

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Sometimes it sucks to be a dreamer.⁣

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“Haven’t had a dream in a long time. ⁣

Seems the luck I’ve had could make a good man turn bad…” ⁣

-The Smiths⁣

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My hope for all of us as we end 2024 is that we’d give Grace to ourselves… the dreamers. ⁣

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To dream is to want, and to want is to want to be here, and we dreamers have decided to be here. Which in a culture of distraction and escapism is really something. ⁣

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But it means you’re more susceptible to having your heart broken. And that probably happened. Maybe you feel that brokenness right now.⁣

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Beloved… and I need to include myself… there will be a boat launch for us soon. It may not take the form that we expect. Mystery hardly works in the obvious. But the Almighty honors those who show up to participate. And you my friend are up next.⁣

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But before we get all excited about the future, let us not forget all the hidden graces that have been happening to us as we wait to dip into the water. That fact that we’re still here and we still even have a dream. Thank God if you died today you wouldn’t conclude that life was all about HGTV and frappacinos. The fact that you have a Sail that desires the rushing wind is in fact Love at work in your life. ⁣

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So thank you for the sail. ⁣

And this vessel. ⁣

And this very desire waiting to be fulfilled. ⁣

I can see that the Gift today is that I would get up another day and give a damn about the life I find myself in.

Thank you for the gift of last year.

Thank you for the gift of the year to come.

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