Dreams

We have dreams for ourselves and for our lives and what we think it will look like and be. 
We have dreams of accomplishments, of ways we want to look, 
of how we can contribute to the world.  
We have hopes for ourselves and even more we have hopes for those we love.  

We have dreams for friends in crisis of health or heart

And perhaps, it seems our own dreams for others, for those we love, are more challenging. 
We want most for someone to be all they can be…to be who we see them being….to hope for good for this someone…to avoid the pain we’ve had that they may learn from us… 
deeeeeep sigh… 
that doesn’t always happen.  
But having wonderful dreams for someone is a great gift of love.  To share your dreams for them is a gift. To call out in them a trait that is unique to them is a true heart gift.

Let’s pause and figure out who we think those who loved us — who they hoped WE would become….

Who did they see us being? becoming? Not to judge yourself…but mainly to remember… what was that loved ones best wish for you?  

There are folk whose loved ones gave them no dream only obstacles. You can’t do that. You will never be good at math. You are such a messy person. You disappoint me. ( one of the biggest harms an adult can do to a child…and it doesn’t even have to come out in words…it can be tone…or expression.).

There are also times I believe when WE are called and need to bring someone a dream of what they can do and be.

To stretch them ..to encourage them..to let them know what we see.  

I think we are sent this kind of people…and we are to be this kind of people for those we meet…even perhaps a stranger.  

Be be generous in your gift of dreams and live into your own to the fullest.  

God abide 
Bobbie Giltz McGarey 

@2023 Easton PA