* So DREAM!

I’m a dreamer. I can easily spend hours lying awake in bed in the early hours of the morning, or in the shower—not because it takes me an hour to wash my hair, but because I’m daydreaming, utterly lost in my imagination, hopelessly fantasizing about...who knows what? And I have fun. But there are those inevitable days where I suddenly wake up to reality and kick myself for wasting so much precious time thinking about nothing, dreaming about things that will never come to pass (they couldn’t; I have no royalty in my bloodline—I checked). It is on these gloomy days that I see my life for what it really is—and it’s terribly boring compared to all the encounters and accomplishments and ways of life and places and people and adventures in my daydreams and imagination. It’s a struggle. It seems as if my imagination may lend bliss for a while, but when I wake up, causes me too much gloom at the true current state of my being in comparison. It makes me not want to dream.

Susan Wooldridge says, “So often we shrink our dreams and expectations to a small, dank room of desire with no windows...I think that what we dream or wish for ourselves, no matter how limited, is what we get.” Wooldridge reminds me of the power of dreaming—rather than shrinking away from big dreams, facing them head on, no matter how huge, and putting them into words, spoken and/or written. A woman I work with told me just Monday, “If you say it, you own it,” and my mom has always told me that there is power in words. I believe it. I don’t necessarily think if I say my little sister is mute, she’ll one day wake up without anything to say. On the other hand, for example, I dreamt one day (yes, in the shower), or more articulated an existing dream, of something that I want. After my shower I immediately wrote it all down. I faced this dream, put it into language, and entrusted it to God to fulfill according to His will. I think those kind of articulated dreams may come true as a result of facing them, not shrinking from them, and presenting them to God. James 4:2-3; Matt. 7:7-8; Psalm 37:4-5.

The origin and meaning of "abracadabra" is really interesting. It comes from Aramaic, the language of the Bible: abraq ad habra. These ancient words mean ‘I will create as I speak.’