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You are infinitely more powerful than you can conceive. Who you are and who you were meant to be are invaluable; not because of anything that you have done or chosen to do, but because of who you belong to, because of who made you. You are invaluable to the maker of heaven and earth, the one who was there before time began and will be there to see it end, and will go on being forever after. In the middle of such a temporary world, it is easy to look as far as the eye can see and say, "This is all there is for me."

But I ask of you, is all the world so flat as this, to only go so far as your failing sight can see? The minute we are born, our flesh and bones begin to age, moving toward decay; the whole world goes on with or without us. The ache you feel all of your life, the searing pain in your heart, is a great hunger of the soul, knowing that there is more to this world, more to your short life and its purpose, than to exist only as far as your eyes can see before you. You were made for wishing, dreaming, to be filled with hunger and desire; you were made for doing, creating, becoming. You were made for great and marvelous things. Do what you must to remind yourself of your purpose, because there is a fog that comes to set-- over your eyes, your life, your heart. The fog threatens to settle over every area of our lives, a heavy, gray stupor that seems to exist only to keep you docked; never sailing, doing, becoming, only empty wishing. The fog and empty wishing can kill a dreamer from the inside out, slow and painful like some kind of poison or cancer that comes creeping in.

All of us were meant for dreaming-- and doing. Empty wishing takes the wind out of the sails. If it is yours for dreaming, if you were entrusted with it and it speaks loudly, boldly, all the while clanging and clamoring inside of you, then figure out what must come of it in order to make it be. No one thinks, dreams, begins or becomes like you do. It does not matter what everyone else is doing, only when you will begin-- when you will say yes to that terrifying, larger-than-life, greatness of a thing that you call your dream, your passion.. it is whatever makes you hungry and thirsty for truth, for more life, to share it with people no matter the cost.

Modify it if you must, but don't water it down, to keep your dreams tied to the docks of yesterday's harbors. Just begin, no matter how long the process-- there is a world full of crushed spirits and empty dreams... and even if your dream does not construct or play out as you envisioned it would.. they never do. Dreams are constantly changing, adjusting to the dreamer... dreams are the kinds of things that grow as you do, that adapt to the dreamer... but they don't get any smaller, or seem less impossible, do they. That's the greatness of dreams, they're bigger than we can imagine-- and that is how you know that they are not of yourself. You can dream of big things in your cage of a body, but it is the up and doing that takes much more than yourself. And you have that, but you must trust the One who gives strength to the dreamer, who made that heart and soul and smiled on it before it was even formed in the womb. The author of dreamers, and doing.