Wishes can come true …
… but only if you stop wishing and do something about them.
How’s that for a practical thought to start your day?
And yes, there’s a certain energy to wishes and dreams … a creative buzz, if you will. Dreaming isn’t a waste of time unless that’s all we ever do. Dreams are meant to become something more … something real …
And that’s where the planning has to happen.
A book, for example, begins with an idea — the “what if,” we authors like to call it. And we dream about that story idea for awhile. Hours. Days. Weeks, even. We toss it around with other writer-friends. But, at some point, we have to take all that dream-energy and turn it into planning-energy. (I won’t say plotting, because not all writers consider themselves plotters. Some just get right down to the business of writing — “the plan” is the writing. No plot needed.)
Wishes are the seeds of dreams . . . and dreams need to be watered and allowed to grow into something real. And that takes planning. Action. We have to go beyond “wish I may, wish I might” and get to the doing of the dream.
In Your Words: What are you wishing for … dreaming of … today? What’s one step you can take — one action you can do — today to move toward your dream?
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The wish is the flame, action’s the fuel. As long as you keep the fuel in steady supply, even in minute supply, the wish won’t die.
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So well said, Andrew.
Said yes to submitting articles to a local non-profit’s newsletter. But you already knew that. 🙂
This does take my “wish I was a writer” to a different level. My blog has been more of a hobby — testing the waters. This feels more like standing in the water thigh deep. A degree of commitment and accountability. A wider readership.
So my actions?
1. Saying yes
2. Hours spent editing a first draft yesterday (Quiet, stay-home 4th of July)
3. Emailed a “special author friend” for advise
4. Submitted first draft
Thanks for your support, Beth.
Author
Cheering you on, Bernadette.You are making this wishes — those dreams — come true in beautiful ways. So happy for you. So proud of you! 🙂
I loved your book Things I Never Told You. I am 52 and my 56 year old husband, who loves me second only to God, was recently diagnosed with early onset dementia. His illness has made some very horrific delusions seem real and he now believes I am having an affair. His family moved him out and I am battling against a divorce.
I NEVER thought my husband would leave me, never thought I would have to fight to stay married … but I am trying to see God in the midst of this. I know He is faithful, and that I don’t always understand His ways.
I am thankful for your writing, that you use your gift and that I could lose myself for a few hours in that gift and that it would encourage me.
I ask myself daily what He is asking of me here, in the midst of this. Because I truly wish I did not have to walk THIS journey. But God.
My response is: hineni. Here I am, Lord.
Thank you Beth! Blessings!
Author
Oh, Dede:
I am so, so sorry that you are walking such a heartbreaking path at this moment. Yes — God is in this moment — in all of these moments. Your husband is not himself … if he was truly in his right mind he would not be making these choices. And God will never leave you or forsake. Never. Nothing can separate us from Him. From His love. May God be your comfort and your strength. You are in my prayers.