My want-o-meter!

I am not an advocate for New year resolutions, I do not practice it, but when it comes to desires and dreams oh yes, so let me share with you “My want-o-meter” and as you read this “Let your want-o-meter go off the charts” ! “Uncovering desires and dreams—and recovering ones that have been lost—is a crucial part to finding our place in God’s story. When we dream with God, we don’t want to run to thinking, How can I make this happen? Dreaming with God isn’t about how. It’s about what. But this book is about your heart. This moment is about your dreams and your desires that contribute to the unique, marvelous woman you are. The point is not so much being able to name the desire as it is to allow God to access the places in our hearts where dreams and desires are planted. God speaks to us there. About himself. About ourselves. It’s okay to want, and it’s okay to want more. Wanting more has nothing to do with being unsatisfied or lacking in your present reality. It’s being open to the more that God wants to bring to you in your own life. The possibilities for you are limitless! They are. Yes, they are. Maybe not for tomorrow but for your life. It is the people who allow themselves to dream, who own their dreams, who write them down and look at them periodically, whose life dreams are coming true. It’s good to dream. We can’t out-give God. We can’t out-love him, and we can’t out-dream him. Give yourself permission to dream big! Dream deep. Dream wide. Because the thing about dreams is, dreams come true. It’s good to sit with God in the quiet and ask him to reveal to you: what do I want? And ask him, what do you want for me? I do know that one of the things he wants is your heart to become more alive, more awake, and more aware of your own inner workings and his pleasure over who you are. Today. Right in this moment. Who you are fleshes out in what you want. Awakening and owning the dreams that God has placed in our hearts isn’t about getting stuff or attaining something. It’s about embracing who we are and who he has created us to be. In him. He is our dream come true, and the one true love of our life. But we can’t love him with our whole hearts when our hearts are asleep. To love Jesus means to risk coming awake, to risk wanting and desiring. Writing down your dreams and desires is good and is just between you and God. You can share your dreams with someone in your life who you know will handle your heart well, but you don’t have to. Let your want-o-meter go off the charts. It is not even remotely connected to your dissatisfied-o-meter. There is a reason you have the desires you do. Some desires you share with many others. Many people want the same core, good things: a community, a relationship, a deeper walk with God. But many of your dreams and desires are yours alone. They have been given to you by God for you to awaken to, embrace, nurture, pursue, and then offer. Let God use your dreams to guide you into the fuller expression of your unfolding glorious self! We need to increasingly live from the fullness of our whole hearts in order to become who we are meant to be and play the significant role that is ours to play. We want to be awake and alert. By dreaming and writing them down, we aren’t demanding they come true. We are just owning the reality that they are a part of us. And since they are a part of us, we embrace them.... Ask yourself: What would I love to do? What would I love to experience or create or offer? What do I want to be really good at? What do I want with God? What does God want with me? What do I want to be known for? Nothing is impossible with God. Nothing is too good to be true. And besides, if you don’t have a dream, how can you have a dream come true?” (Staci Eldredge Becoming myself~embracing God’s dream of you)