Dreams made big

I've heard it shared a couple times that 2010 is a year for dreams to be reawakened, restored, and then seen coming to pass. I believe it's true.

Of course, this kind of statement can be confusing for many. You dreamed of the perfect boy, girl, car, home, candidate, family happiness, contract, job, weight loss or version of yourself, or world peace (or, at least, maybe just the Middle East for starters) and that hasn't happened yet. However, these awakening dreams aren't dreams to impart a picture-perfect veneer that keeps a person, family or nation from issues of the heart; these are heart issues coming to bloom that see the beginnings of life released through you, that mean far more to you than gifts that gloss over the processes of life. These dreams are dreams that reveal your deepest desire in union with eternity.

These aren't necessarily dreams from the night - you know, the supernatural kind that speak of things to come or reveal Christmases past. Although day and night dreams can and will teach you and open you more fully to what is held in your heart, the dreams that will see their bloom bud this year are not limited to supernatural verbal or picture communications, or to something perceived outwardly. Again, these dreams reveal your deepest desire, which is held in union with eternity.

They come alive and bounce in you as you read the words of Jesus in the sacred text, and explode from your lips in conversation with others (if and when some of us can get past the intimidation of sharing such dreams with trusted family and friends).

Shame will be removed from big dreaming. Lives will be transformed, not beginning with the world stage, but from your life-stage.

I believe many couples will realize the adoptions they have dreamed about (and possibly worried over) for years are not just an option for good deeds, but a core issue to fulfilling their life's purpose. Physical and spiritual adoption may be a necessary step toward satisfying the pull of selfless love to be given, and embracing the way of the cross.

You can miss everything you were meant for through inaction on the divine rhema communicating from within your heart.

For me, my truest dream's bud comes by my getting over the ways others have misused their bloom. I dream of Adam reawakened to find himself restored. People stepping from behind the veil of belief in veils, and into unbroken love communion with the God that made them. It's not an issue of emotion solely, but to me, everything. It's a dream of heart-blindness lifting, cancers melting, AIDS and disappearing, darkness departing, and no thoughts as to what if God doesn't show up this time (aka, our what-if god, Doubt).

This dream is not for a picture-perfect veneer that sees health, wealth or miraculous powers as a source of life. That has been tried, and found wanting. It's not an eternally excited posture (i.e., hype) that keeps one too worked up to forge into life's real issues - faith, hope, love, and their companions that include desire's true depths, meekness and unoffended living. It is the true issues of life working out the salvation of an open-to-you Kingdom of God, which when allowed to work, comes out and changes more than we could ever believe.

It's what you feel when you first read Jesus' words, "Take of me", as entrance into everything you've ever dreamed possible. An unquenchable, unoffendable hope that never ceases in its availability when held as love itself and an honor given. The only difference the dreams you hold before those words, and the dreams after, is that before He was the means. Now He is the substance.

The God that made you imparts purpose, and will help you find that purpose. And, if you allow, that same God will show you purpose is more than a destination. God's world, as originally shown to Adam, and now through Jesus, is open to you.

Let your dreams bud this year and believe the blooms you see. You may just begin to find the nature of Jesus permeating their process.

And when you see, know that you believe.