A dream is a wish your heart makes when it’s fast asleep. Our dreams can become our reality if first & foremost we follow our heart. We’re all born with the light of Christ, and that light, as dim or as bright as it is, needs to be our constant guide, especially during times of uncertainly. We have to seek for hope, faith & especially CHARITY when we’re trying to accomplish our goals and make our dreams actually become a reality. Without CHARITY we are nothing. We are puffed-up and we become self-centered and prideful. However, if we have CHARITY, we truly have the pure love of Christ, which should be our driving force for achieving a oneness with the Savior.
I have learned through trial and error, and mostly error, that I don’t do so well when I lose the ability to seek for charity. I tend to lack, for the better word patience, kindness, unselfishness & unconditional love. When I lose these qualities, my ability to have charity dissipates. I also lack compassion, which I believe is one of Christ’s greatest attributes.
When Daren & I were first dating he would play this song for me all the time when we would drive up Logan Canyon. The song was called “The Time Has Come” by England Dan & John Fort Coley. The chorus goes something like this: “I’ve got this dream inside of me, and it knows no boundary, maybe its too big to satisfy, but I know now the time has come to ‘TRY’. I think that the key word in the phrase is “TRY”. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. I believe the most successful people have tried and failed and tried & failed more times than they like to admit. But it’s in the perseverance & the determination to never give up , the fortitude to press forward with a brightness of hope, and the pure love of Christ that determines our true destiny.
Dreams are a universal human experience that can be described as a state of consciousness characterized by sensory, cognitive and emotional occurrences during sleep. Dreams are different for each of us, but sometimes we have dreams that direct us to something spiritual that the Lord will want us to do. Sometimes he speaks to us in dreams, visions, thoughts & feelings. God cares about each of us. He will listen and will answer our prayers in his own way and time. One of the most important things we have to learn is “interpretation” or how to listen to what He wants us to do.
Hyrum & Mercy smith who were related to Joseph Smith both had dreams about marriage and loved ones who had parted. Because of these dreams and the relationship that Joseph had with Hyrum, the doctrine of eternal marriage was later recorded in the D&C 132. Also, it was discovered that the saints could stand in for proxy for a dead person and perform baptisms & marriage sealings for those who have passed on before us. It’s amazing to think that because of a worthy sister & her husbands dreams, that personal revelation was given to Joseph Smith the prophet about eternal marriage, which is one of the most profound revelations in The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints today.
I think that somewhere in this incredibly vast & far reaching universe, there are dreams waiting to come true. Not only for us as individuals, but for those who we care deeply about. It’s in the desire to become better, stronger, wiser & in seeing clearly the path that the Lord has for each of us.
I think seeing is believing that we can pursue our dreams. Each of us need to make sure that the connection with God is clear & precise & that all obstacles that get in the way of these dreams, can be removed.
To each person this creative ability to talk with God & hear his voice clearly is like finding the right radio station to listen to. When you find that station, listen it over & over & over again until your spirit yearns to find this connection. This higher source can become as real as knowing that the sun will come out tomorrow & the moon will be in the night sky watching over us as we create a beautiful place to lay our head to rest.
“the gift of dreaming has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing conscious knowledge’. ~Albert Einstein~
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