Posted by: Norton Cindy on: September 9, 2008
The next book that I read was the icing on the cake,The Dream Manager, by Matthew Kelly. It was exactly as I expected; the next step. I think I mentioned before that my Broker had given me a book, Chazown, pronounced “Cal-zone” (just like the Italian food), by Craig Groeschel. It was ironic that he gave me this book to read when he did. I had just came to the conclusion that I had no dreams or aspirations. I read once that “to desire something and not to have it is the source of nearly all of our pain and sorrow”. I felt like my life was one big, empty black hole. Chazown means vision in Hebrew. The Bible says “with out a vision the people perish”. I was well on my way. As I read I realized that I needed to find a vision for my life, quickly! I was on a one way street going nowhere. My life felt like a train wreck.
I began to think, surely I have something left to do on this earth. Our Pastor once said, “If you were still living, then God wasn’t finished with you yet”. You can imagine the applause from our senior members that Sunday!
It wasn’t until I read the book, “Desire, The Journey we must take to find the life God offers“, by John Eldredge, that things began to fall into place. As a side note, this book was re-released recently. It was released the same year as “Wild at Heart“, and because of the huge interest in Wild at Heart, the author felt that his other book had been overlooked.
The book Desire taught me how important our desires and dreams are to God. If you can imagine that he made the Garden of Eden for us to enjoy. He wants us to be full of dreams and he loves making them come true. I started re-evaluating my life and realized I did have some dreams.
There it was. A purpose and a reason to live. It was as if the floodgates were opened! I want to go back to school. I had always had that dream! I want to write a book, travel, make new friends…the list went on and on! For the first time in a very long time, I was finally dreaming again.
