Monday Morning Church: Dreams

This is from my weekly email to the good people of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church.  If you would like to receive this email sign up here.

What do you see when you close your eyes?

When I say the word “dream” what do you think about?

Do you think about the crazy images that come to your mind when you are asleep? Or do you get tired and run down because you think about all the things that you dream of accomplishing in your life but you have not gotten to them yet? Or do you get energized and excited with the hopes and dreams of your future?

We all have dreams of what we want to be when we “grow up”. When you were a kid what did you dream about? What did you want to become? When we dream our hearts are lifted up because dreams inspire us and give us a sense of passion and purpose in our life.

The last few weeks we have been dreaming about our future together as St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Baldwinsville, NY. I want to thank you once again for dreaming with me about our future for mission in the church and in the community. We had a wonderful celebration yesterday and I can’t wait to see our dreams come to life.

As we celebrate our dreams as a community we must also realized that within the community there are individual dreams. There are some people within our community who live out their dreams on a daily basis, there are others who have put their dreams in a little box for safe keeping. When we put our dreams in a box we can claim that we have a dream but rarely do we open our box to see what is inside. Then what happens to our dreams?

There are other occasions when we start to see our hope and dreams come to life. But then something happens, something that brings our dreams to an end – if you do feel like that or have felt like that in the past you know it hurts. The book club is currently reading Plan B by Pete Wilson where he explores some of those deep questions.

As we start to live out our dreams as a community and as we support one another in our personal dreams, I ask you to take out your box, to put it into your heart and mind, and build your life around it. See your dreams, set goals toward it, share it with those around you, and pray about it. Don’t get caught living your life with no hope, no dreams no visions for how your life is going to be, and if you have to go to “plan B” know that you have love and support while you do it.