Time Is Too Short Not To Follow Your Dream

Time Is Too Short
Not To
Follow Your Dreams

 

Last week,
one of the founding members of 
my home group died.

Perhaps you remember reading about him?

This man…
Mid-Fifties.
Picture of health.
Strong.
Hard working.
Lover of Jesus.
Lover of people.
Everybody’s best friend.

BAM!
Heart attack.
Gone.

Girls, I gotta tell you,
it rattled me.

I don’t presume to know what God is up to here.
That might be another blog.

What struck me was this.
John was about 5 years younger than me.

What if I had died 5 years ago?
What would have gone undone?

I wouldn’t have seen Jake graduate
from college as a Mechanical Engineer.
I would have missed Eli and Kym’s wedding.

Motivational speakers
tell you to visualize the future
as an incentive to propel yourself
into your destiny.

Isn’t it just as important
to review the past
to see what you
would have missed?

Five years ago,
I was a full-time mom and wife.
I volunteered to teach Bible Study at my little church.
I was working part-time at a dental office.

No regrets
about that season of my life.

But, had I died 5 years ago,
I would have missed the opportunity to
shine God’s truth
on life’s hard questions
for thousands of women.

My book, The Widow Wore Pink
would not be in your hand.

If I had died 5 years ago,
I believe Jesus would have said,
“Well done, Robyn.”

But I would have missed you.

What about your last 5 years?
What would you have missed?

Maybe you’re still young and bulletproof.
Your whole life is stretching in front of you.
You have big dreams and lots of energy.

Great!
Be all in!

Maybe you’re in the middle … and life is a full-time job.
You’re in a season of seconds,
when every moment screams for your attention.
Every tick of the clock needs to be accounted for
as you juggle kids and work
and husbands and laundry.

Maybe your season of life
feels like a tide of ebbing and filling.
Work deadlines and insurance payments
are juggled around taking care of parents and bosses
and trips to the doctor and
trying to stay engaged with the news.

Or, your pace is slowing down.
It feels like you’re coasting to the finish line,
and yet,
You wonder if there could be more.

There might be!

Maybe a little dream is pushing its way
into your thoughts and imagination.

The lie of the enemy whispers that it’s too late for you.
He’d like you think you’re too old,
too worn out,
or too inexperienced.

He wants you to
forget about changing your corner the world.

Girlfriend,
Shut the lies of the enemy down.

As long as you are
upright and taking oxygen,
there is time for you
to make a difference.

There is time
to follow your dream.

To write the book or
take the trip or
start the business or
adopt the baby or
attend the Olympics or
learn to cook or
get out of debt
or run with the bulls
or paint a masterpiece.

As you look back over your last 5 years,
what did you experience or accomplish?
Whose life did you impact?
What wisdom did you glean or dispense?

The Bible says life rolls in seasons.

There is a season to be childlike.
There is a season of seconds.
There is a season for working like mad
and a season for resting.

But, the canopy
covering all our seasons
is to live fully for Jesus.

What are you going to do
to make the next 5 years really count?

Time Is Too Short
Not To
Follow Your Dreams

I’m all in for the next 5!

As long as I have breath,
I’ll be looking for ways to
live as fully as my home group leader did.

What have you done with the past five years?
What will you do with the next five?
Will you be all in?