On Fulfilling Your Dreams

What is it that you desire to do?

        What is it that you would do no matter what the circumstances?

               What is your passion?

These are three important questions to ask yourself as you seek to find out your purpose in life or as you attempt to pursue your dreams. I have been keenly aware of my life’s purpose and fulfilling my dreams over the past year. This was brought to the forefront for me in light of the tremendous loss I have experienced with the death of my mother and my sister within 6 months of each other. My sister had just turned 50 and had so many dreams that she for various reasons never acted on. We even talked about doing a business together one day. Then just yesterday a neighbor, a friend, a mother of a teenage daughter passed away unexpectedly. I was saddened by this and grieved for her daughter, her mother and the rest of her family. Once again I was drawn back to this concept of fulfilling dreams. I wondered about her dreams, what were they? Did she get a chance to fulfill all of them?

I believe that God put inside each of us big dreams, things that are so beyond our grasp that we have to walk with Him to completely fulfill them. There are desires that are within us that are waiting to be brought forth, some of them haven't even been verbalized to those closest to us. I believe the scripture encourages us to pursue those desires or dreams. In Psalms 37:4 it reads “Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart.“ (Amplified Bible)

Some of us are alive and for the most part well, yet we are still making excuses for why we are not pursuing our dreams. We can list a number of reasons why we are not in hot pursuit of them like no time, no money, no motivation, but at the end of the day the buck stops with us. We are accountable to God for what we do with the gifts and talents He has given to each of us. We are without excuse. I would like to stand before Him one day and show Him that I brought back a great return on what He entrusted to me. How about you? 

What are your dreams? 

What can you do today to be one step closer to fulfilling them?

What are you waiting on?