You get hurt…you get frustrated…you feel defeated.
Life has many brick walls along its pathway. And when our dreams get stopped, we feel crushed and beaten.
Something dawned on me the other day…
It had to do with dreams getting stopped…and how we sometimes feel that we’ve failed in pursuing a dream.
And also, how those failed dreams…how those goals that seem we will never reach…build us.
Just like the saying:
What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.
Just because your dreams are crushed, doesn’t mean they didn’t build something…inside of you.
I thought of this neat analogy the other day. It may not make much sense, but…I think that if I write it well, you’ll be able to get a brief image of what I’m trying to convey. :)
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But sometimes, even when there’s a slight quiver, we feel that our goal is just beyond our reach. We keep taking steps toward it…little by little. And sometimes…they slip through our fingers and we are unable to grasp them. But from that experience, we learn something. Through every experience in life, we are taught something new. Yes, it may be painful…it may pierce…but it makes us grow. It shapes and adds to the foundation. The solid foundation of making new dreams and reaching for higher goals.
Dreams that disappear, really only disappear out of our reach because they fell to the ground underneath us. And we are able to step up onto them and reach higher and higher.
Don’t ever stop dreaming just because one dream failed.
Your dreams are fragile, right? You care for and nurture them and think about them often. When you feel it is the right time, you take a step towards them. If they waver, you stop. If they blossom, you continue.
But sometimes, even when there’s a slight quiver, we feel that our goal is just beyond our reach. We keep taking steps toward it…little by little. And sometimes…they slip through our fingers and we are unable to grasp them. But from that experience, we learn something. Through every experience in life, we are taught something new. Yes, it may be painful…it may pierce…but it makes us grow. It shapes and adds to the foundation. The solid foundation of making new dreams and reaching for higher goals.
So instead of ‘dreams turning to dust’…how about ‘dreams turning to bricks’?
Dreams that disappear, really only disappear out of our reach because they fell to the ground underneath us. And we are able to step up onto them and reach higher and higher.
Don’t ever stop dreaming just because one dream failed.
Don’t ever stop believing that somehow, some way you will reach your goal.
First of all: with God all things are possible.
Secondly: we learn from our mistakes and our failed dreams.
And thirdly: This life is full of opportunities. Don’t stop dreaming because one of them failed. Stop dreaming when you can’t dream anymore. And really, the only time you can’t is when you’re dead. And if you’re a Christian…that dream is only just beginning…
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18 of your thoughts:
That was beautiful, Raquel.
It's a wonderful thought and quite eloquently written :) Good job ... and thank you!
Dear Raquel,
What a great post! I have been struggling in this area for awhile, and your perspectives are really encouraging.
Thanks so much for sharing.
Blessings,
~Alysha
I just love you, sweet, sweet, Raquel! You've made me cry just now. Those dreams of mine that didn't seem to work out are now the bricks under my weary feet that hold me. Thank you for sharing your beautiful heart and wisdom with us, dear! You are so very, very special and your words are so very timely! ::HUGS::
You made my breath catch by reading this :) This post was exactly what I needed to hear at this moment. I thank you so much for writing this, Raquel :)
Thank you for writing that... I came upon this post because it was shared on google plus, and I just wanted to let you know that it spoke to me in where I am now. God used you! :)
May He be with you like never before,
Carissa
Beautiful. :)
In reply to your comment: Don't worry about it! Honestly I just did a crazy happy dance because you just followed my blog :)) You've been my fave blogger for a while now, so its pretty exciting to see that you actually enjoy my ramblings! :)
I didn't think you were weird at all! ;D I actually realized that a bit ago and thought it was pretty cool :)
This was amazingly inspiring. You put that analogy perfectly. I couldn't agree with you more -- just, amen.
xo,
J
Good post, Raquel. I loved that analogy; the steps similie really was spot-on. You are so right—just because a dream fails doesn’t mean life is over. Usually it’s to make way for a bigger, better fulfillment of a dream we might not have even known we had.
I remember when I was around seven, I wrote a poem for a poetry contest or something. I was SO hopeful that I would win, and every day I would check the mail to see if I had. Well, needless to say, I didn’t win, and young as I was, I was rather crushed. I had big dreams of being a poetess, and it looked to me like life was flavorless now. Hehe. :) I now know that I put way too much stock in “winning,” and I thought I was better than I was; I didn’t even consider the possibility of losing, thus I fell harder than I should have. That was the majority of why I was so “crushed.” I seriously thought I would never write another poem.
Well, I was wrong, because now I have whole journals filled with poetry. ;) I have entered contests and won some of them, lost some of them, but somehow, going through that “crush” of losing the dream of winning that little library contest helped me in the long run. I know this is cliché, but now, it doesn’t matter so much for me to win or be published as it does to know I am writing what I want to, and that regardless of who sees it or whether I make a big publishing name for myself someday, it is all written for the glory of God.
Anyways—I don’t know if the dream you had crushed recently had something to do with writing or not (just a wild guess here on my part), but I want to encourage you to keep thinking the way you are thinking in this post, and to always completely surrender your dreams to God, like I know you are doing. For my part, I may be a published authoress someday, I may not be—people tell me I’m a good writer, and I have had some things minorly published, but I still doubt myself and don’t think I could ever get up the courage to send something to a publisher. Nevertheless, whatever God has in store for me, whatever dreams will be left unfulfilled, I am ready. I may not be resigned, but I am ready.
Much love,
Lucia
Ps-we should get together soon, girl. Like, serious picture time with our Nikon babies? I have some majorly awesome photoshoot ideas that I need a partner-in-crime (er, fellow photog) for. ;)
This is...perfect. E-zackly what I needed right now, too. Soo...thanks! :)
Needed this today <3
Wow Miss Raquel! That was such a wonderful post! I can find myself giving up if the going gets tough...but I want to change that to when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Because with God I can be tough...and my dreams can be bricks. I loved the way you wrote this post...and that first picture was just lovely :) Thanks for posting! Sierra
Keep Growing Beautiful♥ (Cause You Are!)
thanks so much for this, I've been slightly afraid to dream recently. I don't know why, it is kinda like everything is just so {almost} perfect right now, that if I dream, they might come true and mess everything up. and I hate change. but thanks for inspiring me to dream again, I mean I wasn't going to stop dreaming, I was just afraid too....hope this made some sense, haha because actually I am not quite sure it made sense to me either.
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" - that is a part of a song by Kelly Clarkson that I have been listening too. It might not be the "best" song out there but she has a great voice and it's "fun." =)
I totally agree 100%! Everything really does happen for a reason. Even the bad stuff. Beautiful post, so encouraging! :)
this is the best post i've read in my entire life and i think i'll remember this forever.
This post is excellent. That is something that I myself need to remember. Just because some dreams never reached fruition, doesn't mean that they failed per se.
Wonderful post, Dear! :)
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