Dreams

What dreams do you have?  What dreams did you have that you gave up on or that weren’t realized?

I was going to be a baseball player.  I wanted nothing more than to patrol center field for the Yankees.  Growing up, I would come home from school and pick up a ball and run out into the back yard.  I’d pull friends together in the local field, it didn’t matter how many we had, we’d play ball.  It didn’t matter if it was wife ball, home run derby, or a simple game of pickle.  I always had a ball in my hands.

My issue was that I didn’t learn how to hit until I was 16 and by then, the others were that much better than me.  I spent money on batting cages as often as I could.  I got better and better, and friends saw the improvements.  But there were the naysayers who told me I wasn’t good enough.  I listened to them and quit playing.

We all know failure at some point in our lives.  It’s what we do and how we act after that failure that helps determine our character.   School is hard, marriages are tough, or work can be a grind.  The lesson I learned through baseball was to never give up, once was enough.  Your dream can become a reality when you put in the effort and work.  That’s why I am a Chiropractor, why many of us are still married, and we find joy in our work.

The Bible tells us to be as little children.  Children dream.  Keep dreaming because you are an adult.  Don’t give up because a co-worker doesn’t like you, or a doctor told you the odds are against you.  They lie… because they’re afraid you’re right and that makes them wrong.  Pursue your dream, you can do it.