"Good morning! Did you know that throughout the night when we are asleep our mind is going through a series of random dreams that if any are remembered they are usually so bizarre and strange that we often just shake our heads at them and move on?
In other words, they often don't make any sense, but yet they are so elaborate and vivid and full of color that they can seem very real, but because they are so strange in content we just disconnect from them and go off into our day. Now I do want to point out that there are times when God uses dreams in the night to speak or show us something, but this is the exception and not the rule.
What I want to address here today is the dreams that a person has when they are awake. You are awake aren't you? So, lets talk about our dreams that grow out of us during our awaken hours. I found that we all get these dreams, but few are ever really pursued with any consistency. Have you ever asked yourself why this is?
Well, for starters, these daytime dreams and ideas are treated with the same attitude as we would approach our night dreams. Thus we presume that our dreams or creative ideas to be nothing more than the same strange and bizarre dreams that we would have in the night.
How many people do you think could have lived a life of luxury with some idea or dream they came up with but dismissed it because they treated it with the same approach as they do a night dream? I tell you there are scores of dreams and ideas in the pile of the unrealized.
I personally think we spend much more time with our thoughts in the dark than in the light. Most things done in the night is on the level of bizarre or strange because its when people are supposed to be asleep; whereas, the daytime is when we create afresh.
Why is this? Because we are awake in the daytime and life is happening. But in the night, people are closing out the day or winding down as they say, therefore their thoughts are random as they consider all that happened throughout the day with their possibilities ignored or squandered.
When our daytime living is just as random, though it may be vivid and in full color as when we dream at night, the reality of "doing" our daytime living will be treated with the same focus as we give our night dreams. We won't do a thing with them and thereby end up running off in another random direction only to leave another loose end to our lives.
We will conclude that that was a strange thought or idea thereby never doing anything with it. When we live in such a manner we often have difficulty separating the random from reality as we handle life as we would a dream we had last night. Oh! ...that dream I just thought of is ridiculous!
Don't treat your daytime dreams as you would those you have through the night. To do this, is to live with randomness and a drifters mindset. I assure you if you do this, you will never go anywhere in life. Why? Because you are sleeping through it." ~Dad~ |
