Dreams
We all have dreams. As children, we imagined what our lives would become. We played, we ran, we laughed. Children can take a box of Legos and create entire worlds that their parents can't even recognize. "Look Daddy!" "What is this supposed to be?" "Don't you see it, it is a rocket ship!" Children can take their front yard and a wifleball and recreate an exact replica of Wrigley Field in their minds. Sadly, adults can lose their ability to dream, to imagine.

But something deep within inside us stirs. Something calls. We long for a life we don't have. I think when Jesus said we "must become like children" that in one small way, He was speaking of this quality of dreaming. Children dream. They imagine. They have hope. Their hope pulls them into the future. We adults gradually begin to lose these qualities and along with the loss, we lose our passion.

But that voice is still there. The call is there. When we begin to dig and explore and seek God, we dredge up our silted over channels and open up the pathways to our soul and in so doing, we start to dream again. We start to once again hear that voice that has always been calling out to us.

Erwin McManus says, "Something stirs deeply within us, calling us out, inviting us to pursue and discover that which we do not know. All of us are called to a place we have not been. Our lives were always intended to be journeys into the unknown. The invitation is both personal and mystical. No one else may fully understand what you are being called to. You may not even fully understand. The path you must walk may appear to others as strange or unreasonable, but you know there's more going on than meets the eye. Your soul is being pulled forward. You are having visions of a life you could not possibly create alone. You are no longer satisfied with where you are, and now you are on a quest for where you do not know."

He continues, "The maddening reality is that each and every one of us has been created with a soul craving to become - to become something - something better, something different, something special, something unique, something admired, something valued, something more than we are."

My soul craves more. More. In Christ is the supply of more than I can possibly dream.

The Great Liberator is also the supplier of great dreams.

Soar!