madi’s place

We are one month into the new year and the question I would like to ask is how many of us are on par with all our new year goals, or did we write it down somewhere and forgot about it. I have to admit that I do give up on my dreams too especially when I share it with someone and they tell me that I am silly or that it will never work.

Then I look around me at all the things we purchase on a daily basis or that we see on television. Even the things we read in books and the movies we so often watch. These things were all once upon a time no more than a vision or a dream someone had. Today that person’s vision became a reality all because they could see it happen before anybody else.

As a child my parents often referred to my great imagination, they often called me a dreamer, however sometimes they oppressed my dreams because they were trying to teach me that things do not work like that in the grown up world. You don’t wake up one morning and just drive a Ferrari. I had a very expensive taste for cars as a little girl. As a result I grew up and I stopped dreaming. In my teens it was something of the past . I had this total belief that I will get nowhere and that I will probably have a similar lifestyle to that of my parents. However when I was in my twenties I went one night to see our local minister about a matter with regards to the church youth and we started having a conversation about my life and what I wanted to do after my studies. We ended on the topic of relationships which was not my strong point at that stage since I had a very large group of male friends but I was often too scared to get involved in a serious relationship. I was too scared to take a chance and get hurt. He told me that he see me in a few years being married to a very successful businessman. I could not help but laugh at him, because as a child I often pretended that I was married to a rich and extremely successful businessman. But that was nothing but a childhood dream.

I had a great eye opener a few years after we had that conversation, because that childhood dream is now my reality and even thought I did not realise it then I can see it now in my life. Everything I pretended to have and be when I was a child is now the reality I am living in today. It was only when I started to change my beliefs and did not care what other people thought of my goals and ideas that I started seeing it in my life. Even though my mind gave up on my dreams, my subconscious mind always kept it stored away and made it a reality in my life.

If it was not for those dreams as a child I probably would not have married the man of my dreams and have the life I always imagined I would have.

God is the creator of our dreams. When he created us he gave us a soul, a mind, a body and He gave us dreams. Our dreams are a gift from God. It is His way to show us what we can achieve and what he would like us to achieve in life. Our dreams are a gift from God. God will never give us a dream if it is too big for us to achieve. He is our Father and creator and knows what we are capable of. I know that a lot of us think that things don’t come easy, but if everything just fell into our laps without trouble we would not appreciate it. Some of us work hard for what we have and we still seem to not appreciate the things we have.

Our dreams is a vision of what still lies ahead for us in our lives, and although we sometimes go through though times to get to those dreams, they are God’s gift to us and we must never let go of them. Because with the love and grace of God that is in all of us we can make our dreams come true.