Dreams do come true.

It’s a new year. Hello, 2012. Whether I am ready for you or not, you are here, and let me tell you, I’m feeling your pressure. People all around me are talking about their new year’s resolutions. Diet plans, exercise routines, budgeting finances, learning a new talent, all such great ambitions to strive for, but what about me? What will be different for me in 2012? How will I better myself?
I spent last night having a good conversation with a good friend about the future. The question
was posed if I could do anything I wanted to right now what would it be? I struggled to answer it. My response was to travel… to take a road trip with my cousins. How fun would that be?! It would be non-stop laughter, no doubt, along with jammin’ out to old school Avril Lavigne and eating Doritos and drinking chocolate milk (which hopefully would go down….this time ;-)). It would be a TON of fun. But is that really what I want to do? How would that better me? How would that better the world?
Today as I was running and talking to God (maybe I’m weird but there is no better prayer time than when I’m running) we brought that conversation back up. As my size 3 feet pounded the belt of the treadmill, God bombarded my heart with all the things in life I want to accomplish. God reminded me of my dreams. I left the gym not only refreshed physically, but spiritually and emotionally as well… isn’t God awesome like that?
So… here’s the deal. After being reminded of my hearts desires, I have decided that my resolution this year is to work toward achieving those dreams. My dreams are huge (well, most of them anyway) and will not simply be completed on a deadline (certainly not by MY deadline),
but there are definitely things that I can be doing now that will set me up for a brighter future with dreams come true.
Broken plans have scared me from setting goals and allowing myself to believe that what I want out of life can actually happen, but how silly that is?! While my plans may often fail, I am confident that the plans and goals I’m setting now will come true because I feel they are the true desires that God has placed on my heart… and attacked me with on my peaceful jog.
This year, you’ll hear more from me. I signed onto this blog and realized I haven’t written anything since July of 2010. I stopped writing because I felt like no one really cared to hear my thoughts, but as Uncle Favorite reminded me today (yes, God, thanks for sending a messenger to reiterate things… I know you know I wouldn’t have listened otherwise), people do care and believe that I have things of importance to say. Someday I hope to write a book. What that book will be about, when it will be written, and who will read it are all unknown right now, but one
step I can take now towards achieving that dream is to write. To write with confidence. To write believing that my words can make a difference, even if it is simply putting a smile on the face of one person.
2012 will be a beautiful year because God and I will be making amazing things happen; things I have only ever dreamed of. It’s not going to be an easy year, and I’m sure I’ll probably be asked to do many things I don’t really want to do. But, I know that my God will never forsake me or leave me (Deut. 31:6), and that if I am faithful to Him, he will see to it that my heart’s desires come true (Psalm 37:4).
Happy New Year, all. I hope you stay tuned to hear about my journey… and I pray that it
inspires you as much as I will be inspired.