A Million Dreams

The danger of perpetual overwhelm.

I was so tired of all the little kids talking about this new movie and singing the songs as they ran around the pool.  I wanted in on the action too!

Afterwards, we stopped by the grocery store for some dinner and I decided to rent the movie from RedBox. We drove home to cook and relax into movie night. 

Fast forward two hours and I was jumping all over the house singing the soundtrack and penning the lyrics. 

While I wasn't expecting a musical and I wasn't expecting to be bursting with energy at 11pm, I was so motivated by the words and the intention behind the movie that I couldn't possibly go to sleep NOW!

You may have seen the movie, and you may know a song or two yourself. 

The movie was The Greatest Showman. 

I could talk for days about each song and why you should adopt it as your own personal motto, but I won't. 

However, I do want to talk about one song in particular: A Million Dreams

A million dreams is all it's going to take, a million dreams for a world we are going to make. 

In life and in our ministry, I believe there is a secret hope inside us that this whole thing will be easy. That we won't need a million dreams to create the life we want. Won't one just do?

That we won't need to push through when we are tired, or constantly learn about marketing and selling and the human mind, or that we won't experience rejection as we ask someone to buy our fill-in-the-blank.

We find ourselves in perpetual overwhelm living in the world of all information available at all times. 

Each and everyday we fight our greatest temptation.

Complacency. 

The comfort of now. The way it is. Taking the easy route. 

We create this dream life in our heads, but when it comes to marinating on all that must happen in order to bring it to pass, we freak ourselves out. 

It's easy to do! Coupled up with comparison-itis and the feeling of being unworthy or incapable, then you have yourself a great big soup of "stay right here". 

But how is that serving and helping others? It's not. 

It is serving and helping us first. 
 

Are you psyching yourself out?