Saturday, May 07, 2005

Unreasonable Dreams and Profound Realities

Faith requires us to be unreasonable in our demands upon the future. (adapted from G.B.Shaw)

It takes absolutely no vision to predict the obvious. Very little excitement can be expected if you look forward to the guaranteed. True visionaries, the profoundly non-boring of our society, have cursed the infernal concept of 'impossibility' and damned it to hell where it belongs. Why should there not be more of an impassioned hatred of such a concept; of things that hold us back, kill our dreams, and enslave our desires?

To hate such things is to find a common enemy with God. Noone has seen more casualties caused by a lack of vision than God. Over the course of eons, He's seen much of his creation fall short of their actual potential. But if our destiny has been stolen from us, we need not shake our fist toward heaven but, rather, punch the mirror in rage. If we dream small, we have ourselves to thank for small accomplishments and small lives. We are the fools with nowhere to shift the blame.

'Dream' is a verb, it's an action we take. A decision that we choose to make. We honor God by realizing the potential He's given us. In fact, apart from him we can never realize our full potential. Let us look down at the valley of slain desires and broken dreams and decide today that we'll take the high road. Wake up(!) and make your wildest dreams a destination today.