The Possible Impossible Dreams

Lately, I've been thinking quite a bit about dreams. Not the ones we have at night while we’re asleep, but the ones that reside in our hearts…the ones we ponder while we’re awake. Maybe it’s because any time a person has an abrupt, unexpected life event (such as getting fired), he revisits the life plan he was following and wonders if something else is possible.

Think back to when you were very young. Do you remember a time when you believed anything was possible? It seems like we start out believing this, but little by little, our decisions and life experiences narrow our options until we are left with fewer and fewer possible dream scenarios to pursue. I call foul on this.

Who is to say that we can’t keep believing anything is possible? Why are we so hell bent on casting our dreams aside because they aren’t ‘realistic?’ Friends: the very nature of a dream is that it’s not realistic. That’s why it’s a dream! I think it’s time we embraced our impossible dreams and let grace take care of the rest. Dig down deep in your heart. What dream lives in there? Maybe it’s just tiny…maybe it’s a shred of a thing because it hasn’t seen the light of day in years. Maybe you’ve never even spoken it out loud.

Today is your day. I believe that the purest, truest dream of your heart was put there by someone who carefully and wonderfully made you. And the same way that dream was imagined in you, it was also given possibility. I don’t believe you have to see a way for this dream to come true. Just let it come alive in your heart. I think that’s all it takes. I am experiencing this myself. You will shine. You will start believing that anything is possible. Anything will be possible. You will begin to see your amazing self for who you were made to be. You will begin loving others for who they were made to be. You will realize that your options are limitless.

You are loved

My sweet southern momma is a 4th grade teacher and last week, I was able to pay a visit to her school and enjoy a lunch of cafeteria food with her (It was tasty, but no Russian Tea Room).

Before lunch, I arrived to find her on the playground, where the students in her class were having a grand ol’ time running around, chasing each other, and doing whatever else 4th graders do.

As I watched those little kiddos, I got a glimpse of what it must feel like to God to watch his children playing at life. We think we’re all so grown up, but each of us is just a precious child in our Daddy’s sight. All with different stories to tell. All with our various experiences, many that involve hurts and heartaches.

As I looked around at those small guys and gals, I had a thought.

Every. Single. One. Of. Us. Is. Loved. I don’t just mean loved as in, “oh yes, love…what a nice sentiment.” I’m talking about can’t-eat, can’t-sleep, can’t-live-without-you, life-changing love. We aren’t able to completely comprehend it because our love capacities are crammed into these little bodies we live in.

God’s love for you? Infinite. It stretches beyond the heavens. It reaches down into the deepest depths. There is nowhere you can go that it won’t be. There is nothing you can do that will stop it or decrease it or cause it to pass you by.  In fact, there’s nothing you have to do to get it in the first place. But you can choose to receive it. You can let it wash over you, let it permeate your thoughts, let it be the biggest elephant in the room.

If you’re reading this thinking “she can’t be talking about me,” I want you to know that YES, I’m most definitely talking about you. If you’ve never experienced this love before, there’s a first time for everything my friend. I hope that you can begin to feel it starting right now.

I hope you feel how much you are loved and I hope you have a wonderful Sunday.

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You, Beautiful You

Have you ever imagined something that you were looking forward to, such as an upcoming trip or event? Chances are you imagined it in the most positive, wonderful way. I’ve sat and daydreamed about possible travel scenarios (and even impossible ones!) and for each one, I think of how relaxing it will be or how exciting…of how much joy it will bring me and what special memories will be created in the process.

Our imaginations are a powerful thing because the ideas and dreams they produce are coming from our deepest hopes and wishes. If our imaginations are this vivid, just think how much more (infinitely more!) vivid is God’s imagination.



I’ve always believed that God made us. We learn this as children. That he made our bodies, inside and out. More recently, I’m learning that He imagined us as well. Every wonderful quality, every talent, every gift and nuance…is a product of His divine imagination. He imagined a very specific combination of qualities for each one of us. We are all so very much the same because we are all His creations, but we are also so different because each of us is an expression of His creativity.

I think so many people struggle with feeling alone in this world. Like nobody understands them or sees them and that they don’t bring anything special to the table. I wish every person could know and truly understand that he or she is an incredible creation, the handiwork of the same God who spoke the world into being. I think it would definitely change how we feel about ourselves on the deepest possible level.
Today and always, I hope you feel like the incredible treasure that you are! Happy Sunday friends.

Loving Poorly, Practicing Forgiveness

“Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen