“Perhaps a greater tragedy than a broken dream
is a life forever defined by it.”
It would not be too much of an
exaggeration to say that most of our lives are characterised by broken dreams.
Some have endured very traumatically these fractured designs of life that
promised so much at the time but delivered so little. But, by and large, we
have all had our lives reduced to options untenable, and for that we grieved.
But there is a wonderful truth
left to sunbake on our consciousness as we deliberate regarding the risk of
staying stuck in the midst of broken-dream land.
It is amazing how many people, for
instance, give up on God because a significant event occurred to stunt their
hopes. But the reality is, the moment we give up on the goodness in life,
because we are shattered by our disappointments, is the very tragic moment we
have sold ourselves into an horrendous life of bitterness, fear, and reticence.
By Far a Better Goal – Get Resilient
This truth goes far beyond mere
pop psychology. It is a very tenet of faith—the obedient life God calls us all
to.
Our broken dreams need to be
outlasted. When we take life upon the assumption that we will have to endure
broken dreams we are ready and able to endure them as they occur. There is no
lack of pain, but there is the brightness of hope that the pain ebbs away,
eventually, in response to us taking it at truth.
When we outlast our broken dreams
we get to dream up new dreams.
When we continue along the Divine
Road—the path God has us on—at accord with our humblest discernment—the
presence of broken dreams, like speed bumps in the road, present as evidence of
what we grew over.
These are very real opportunities
to grow through the unrealised visions, and go onward toward those visions within our futures that may be realised.
This is never easy terrain, and we
kid ourselves if we are to think it is. But if we never ultimately give up, and
we battle through the grief involved in managing our loss, we will outlast the
broken dream, and we will redeem vision of a newer dream.
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When we outlast our broken dreams
we get to dream up new dreams. Broken dreams were never meant to define us
other than to show how we endured them to create something better. God has a
better dream for us to realise. It is for us to have faith and persist.
© 2012 S. J. Wickham.
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