calling all dreamers.

I have a dream.
yep, today is Martin Luther King Jr Day.
I've had these thoughts swirling around in my head for about a week about being a DREAMER and just felt like today was the perfect day to write them down.

I was inspired yet again today, by a man who dreamed big.  who risked everything to dream.
and look what has come of his big, audacious dreams. 

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

He also dreamed that his kids would not be judged not by the color of their skin, but the content of their character. 
that too is a dream of mine. 

back to dreaming.
I ran into someone recently & when I asked how they were and what they had been up to they said something that you & I say or hear said a lot, "oh we're just going through the motions".
my friends, it's SO EASY to just go through the motions.  I know it is.  I struggle and battle with it too.

but in that next moment God reminded me big time, that we should always be praying big prayers and dreaming big dreams.  

remember when you were a kid & someone asked you what your dream was?
why did we stop asking that question?  or beleving those dreams could come true? 
while we might not still want to be a professional singer (yep, gotta actually be able to sing for that one)
we have real life dreams that God has put on our hearts.
passions.

I'm reading a book called The Circle Maker by Mark Batterson  and yall I keep reading the same pages over and over.  It's so good.  I just need it to seep into my soul.  I picked it back up this weekend and this is where I landed,

"If you've never had a God-sized dream that scared you half to death, then you haven't really come to life.  If you've never been overwhelmed by the impossibility of your plans, then your God is too small.  If your vision isn't perplexingly impossible, then you need to expand the radiuses of your prayer circles."  

God is ABLE to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.  (eph 3:20) 

so why don't we believe him sometimes? 

why don't we dream big dreams?

pray big prayers? 

and believe for God to do the impossible?

I don't know about you, but all this talk about dreaming and praying big challenged me to go back to God in prayer and ask Him what he wants of me. 

to look at my passions & my position and not be afraid to dream big.

this past week, Stephen + I served at something called Challenge Day (which you'll hear more about tomorrow in my anybody post) and we had a "buddy" who we shared dreams with.  

My sweet friend shared with me it's his dream to play in the NFL.  

I encouraged him to go for his dream!!

I didn't tell him that there's a high chance that won't happen, I believed in him and encouraged him to GO FOR HIS DREAM! 

and that's what I wish we could do for each other.

encourage each other, meet together, talk about our dreams & our passions. 

a few friends of mine & I had a "dreamer" lunch recently (alison talks about it here) and it was incredible.

it didn't take much but just asking each other what we were dreaming and praying about. 

So, I want to encourage YOU to do the same.  find a friend or two and open up + talk about those god sized dreams, and then encourage and pray for each other on the way to god fulfilling those dreams! 

my dreams need a whole other post, but I'll leave you with what I told my Challenge day buddy: I hope to be a mom to a whole lot of kids who wouldn't otherwise have a family.  

what are your dreams?!