My friend Jeremy of StoryLine is dreaming out loud a bit this Sunday.  His ponderings that, “dreams come with a cost. However, is the cost a dream higher than the cost of not pursuing the dream? Regret and unhealthy wonder are a high price.”

A personal mentor reminded me recently of the need to dream what God could do without the boundary and fixating on how the dream could be initiated, launched, or reached. All this has restoked in me a refreshing sense that comes from simply dreaming and immersing in the beauty of a vision for something uncreated and exploring the mysterious ways of dreams. Not getting lost in changes needed, issues, fears, insecurities, tyranny of the urgent, contingency planning, past failures and lost opportunities or even the past opinions of others that remain in mind.

Seems like I cannot escape the powerful evidence of dreaming. And for me, PTL the global movements of social entrepreneurs like SocialEdge who provide the continuing invitation to, “Think big! Think grand! Be audacious!”

Though I kick myself on missed opportunities to meet past dreams, perhaps the largest failures aren’t dreams unpursued but a mind and heart afraid to dream at all. I know also that unlived dreams come with a personal cost and considered to be lost opportunities to embrace whom God made us to be.

Though I believe with full conviction the Lord gave us minds to work out what He placed in our hearts, I so quickly lose touch with the art of dreaming purely outlandish, childish, and innocent dreams of what could be even if He never uses me to initiate! Ah yes, the beauty of dreaming…