While waiting to fulfill a dream
it’s so tempting just to settle.
We build our hope on lesser things
that simply don’t resemble
the passion that first lit our sky
and launched us with a will to try.
In the parable, Dragonfly Denny jumps at the chance to make her new home at the first place where she and the Dragonfly King stop. Have you ever waited a long time for something and were tempted to “settle” for the first thing that came along? If you did settle, how did that turn out for you?
Although a marsh is a place that does have life and its own ecosystem, it has water that does not flow―a useful metaphor for stagnation. While struggling to envision a “new thing,” we may be tempted to return to, and resurrect, “good OLD times” or use a method of delivery that is outdated. Rather than propelling us forward, that which is past its time will, instead, bog us down and cause us to stagnate.
Does someone who is close to you
have bigger things in mind
than what you see inside yourself?
Could it be a Grand Design?
Sometimes people in our lives encourage us to reach higher than we might otherwise reach without them. Have you been inspired by people who could see bigger things for your life before you were ready to see them for yourself?
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