Dare to Dream
When you’re young you dream about the future in education, love, money, career, fun.
When you’re a business executive you dream about the future growth and profit of the company.
When you’re an evil scientist you dream of world domination.
We all dream of what could be and should be.
But
1). It doesn’t mean that everyone is going to buy into your dream.
Joseph in the Old Testament had a dream that his brothers and his father would be ruled by him. This dream caused his brothers to hate him and ultimately sell him as a slave for 30 pieces of silver.
2). There are going to be people that want to change the course of your dream with their dream.
Joseph was a finely built and good looking man (kinda like myself, ha) and his master’s wife kept trying to get him to have sex with her. He refused. One day she created a lie to her husband that Joseph tried to have sex with her to get back at him for not fulfilling her dream. This sent Joseph to prison.
3). Not everyone is going to continue buying into your dream even if they first do.
Joseph helped interpret a dream of a cup bearer in the Egyptian prison. He was excited over the good news of the dream and promised to help get Joseph out of prison, but once he was out, he forgot about Joseph.
It’s awesome to dream and put your dreams to action, but beware of the hardships that are going to come when you dare to dream.
January 30th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Interesting thoughts, Steve. I'd never looked at Joseph's story that way.
One of the things I'm thinking about, after having read your thoughts, is that I have this tendency to view people who don't buy into my dreams as enemies, are at best not-friends.
But our dreams are journeys. There are some people who we travel an entire journey with. And others who just join us for one little part of the trip. In physical journeys, we recognize that it's o.k. to travel with people when we're all headed in the same direction, and when it's time to part ways, we can part ways with friendly hearts and solid relations.
I'm thinking particularly about your category #3 "Not everyone is going to continue buying into your dream even if they first do." It occurs to me that I don't need to be all angry, resentful, and betrayed by these people. For a while, we were headed in the same direction; when it's time to part ways, I really can do it with kindness and love.
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