Yesterday was my day off. It feels like it’s the first one I’ve had in a while. Technically, I do get every weekend off, but last weekend I worked an event for World Vision and the two weekends before that I was sick. I don’t count days being sick as days off. Sometimes marathon puking is more work than going to an actual job! My apologies. That probably just bordered on the “too much information” line didn’t it?
I’m not a big fan of alarm clocks. I don’t think it’s right to let an electronic device tell your body when it should get up. It seems to me that the body is a pretty complex machine and no simple man-made device should be given the opportunity to rule it. Therefore, I’m a firm believer in sleeping until you’re done. By no means do I intend for this to be an excuse for laziness, I just think that when your body is ready to be awake, it’ll be awake, and when it’s ready to go to sleep, it’ll go to sleep. So, instead of making it work around me, I just work around it – when I can.
My morning started with a fire call at 11:00a. I was still in bed sound asleep. When the pager went off, I had no idea what time it was. I just knew it was bright out and assumed it was sometime in the morning. When I got in the back of the truck I asked somebody about the time and they told me it was after 11:00a. I laughed. They questioned me. I simply said I was still sound asleep. This particular individual failed the see the humor that I saw, as they start their day around 5:00a, 6 days a week.
When I got back from the call, I had no plans. It was a day to do whatever I wanted, and as much or as little of it as I wanted. What I decided to do was spend a little time dreaming. I know what you’re thinking, “good grief Marc, you went back to bed?” No, no I did not. I’m not talking about that kind of dreaming. I’m talking about awake dreaming.
I’m reading a book by John Maxwell called Dare To Dream
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
Every so often I like to spend time getting lost in possibility. A thought journey, you could say, through what could be. I really believe that if you never take the time to think big, outrageous, seemingly impossible things, then it’s too easy to settle in the comfortable. I don’t want to be that guy that lives comfortable. Comfortable is good, but it’s not exciting. It’s not challenging. It’s not frustrating. If you want a full, quality life, you need all those things.
As I sifted through the pages of the book, soaking in the wisdom sprinkled throughout it, I most definitely got lost in the some big dreams. It was inspiring. I was fortunate to accomplish my ultimate career goal at the age of 26. So now, at 30, I’ve realized that it’s time to make some bigger goals. Bigger goals mean bigger dreams!
I have no idea if I’ll ever achieve any of the things I think about. I do know this though, I’ll most definitely never see any of it come to pass if I don’t even spend a little time thinking about it! It would be impossible to make reality out of that which is never even conceived in my mind.
With all of my being, I believe God has put us all here for a purpose, and I believe He has equipped us with the skills necessary to fulfill that purpose. I also believe that to often we settle by not allowing ourselves to be stretched. It’s easy to feel like we’ve accomplished all that we can, and then call it good enough. Not only do I want to accomplish all I can, but I want to keep myself open to accompishing all God can through me! That’s the difference maker! When we let ourselves be used by God, and rely on Him to work through us, then our big dreams can become big reality!
Let yourself take some time to think big today. Don’t think about what you can do on your own. That doesn’t require faith. Think beyond what you can do. Everybody needs to spend a Saturday in Dreamland!
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