Thinking & Campus Fellowship
Kon makes me think.
Academics.
Worship them?
Stupid.
True, though?
Maybe.
Identity.
Academics.
Worth.
Academics.
True?
Maybe.
Most important?
God.
Family.
Friends.
Academics.
What about dreams?
Academics.
Do it heartily, to God.
I was excited tonight to meet a PhD student in Statistics (yeah!) at the Campus Ambassadors meeting I went to. I think I'm going back because I felt as if I connected there, more so than at Campus Crusade, which I had been attending off and on last year.
posted by Byran @ 1:45 AM
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8 Comments:
Something I like to tell my students:God has big plans for you. Dream big with God in the center of your dream, and I can tell you that your dream will come true.
--LaDonna
Dreams--they can be wispy, yet they're the engines of life. Car dies without them. One of my dreams--actually, The Dream that is probably most connected with who feel that I am--is sort of in limbo right now. Thursday night at chorus practice, someone said this (in essence): He may never completely live his dream here on earth; he may never have the time and resources to write like he wants to. In eternity, however, he is convinced that his dream, his talents, his soul, will live on. Throughout eternity, he'll be fulfilling his dream completely, perfectly.
Is he right? It's easier to think of those who have always longed for perfect music as living their dreams in heaven. But writing? Expression with words? Maybe. Other dreams living on? That hope revives me.
Lori
Hmm, interesting to think about, Lori.
Crystal
Lori, you made me cry today. I was just really getting into this whole thing when they turned the lights out on us. That will quench the spirit.
Dreams. Oh my. Put me on a roller coaster of mixed emotion.
I have had my dreams stamped on, crushed, mocked, ridiculed.......because of that I have had to be careful that I don't turn what God says into what people say.
Sometimes I've asked myself if dreaming is worth it. I mean, in a sense, you can't help it. Dreams aren't something you just drum up one day. They are something inside of you that no matter what you do, are always there. But I've fought the mentality of being scared to even "want" something because if I want it, God won't let me "have it". And I know all the verses. Trust me! Don't bother quoting. I've lived on those verses. But still, I don't understand the way God works. Why should I desire something I will never have? Right now, I feel as though God needs to be my dream. That may make sense to no one but me.
I held onto dreams for so long
In time they all slipped away
No matter how hard I tried
To get them to stay
With nothing to live for
And nothing to be
Through emptiness I found
Lord what you are to me
You are my dream
All that I want to be
My desperate desire
Lord is to live like thee
You set my soul on fire
With your power and majesty
You are all I want
You are all I need
You are my dream
It's not worth wasting all my time
Chasing after wind
When in front of me, reality
A tangible, toucheable dream
Ag
>>But I've fought the mentality of being scared to even "want" something because if I want it, God won't let me "have it".<<
Dear Ag, I know what you're saying. And another version of that goes like this-- I'm afraid that the things that I fear are just giving God ideas of things to do to me.
I'm sure glad that God is so understanding and doesn't hold it against me that I can't help but have thoughts like that about Him sometimes. And the thing I have to come back to is this, "Crystal, God KNOWS the plan He has for your life. Already. It's not you that's giving Him ideas."
I know the plans I have for you.
No mystery to Me
Your life and all the future holds.
Each step ahead I see...
Crystal
Crystal,
"I'm afraid that the things that I fear are just giving God ideas of things to do to me." I had to laugh at the absurdity of the EXACT same thing I've thought before I knew what I was thinking! Aren't we funny--and ridiculous??
And "Ag," I loved that last bit,
"Chasing after wind
When in front of me,reality
A tangible, toucheable dream."
Goes exactly with the heart of Larry Crabb's book, Shattered Dreams. (great book, as all of his are) Our dreams--our lovely, dear-to-our-hearts, most personal longings are often bursting with potential AND even indicative of what God wants--but they're good only as long as the lead us toward the Source of our dreams. The minute we seek something aside from Him, it becomes a chasing in the wind. But I say, "Let's go--'further up and further in'"
Lori
p.s. I'm sorry if you don't know C.S. Lewis' The Last Battle--read it if only for the feeling of that last quote.
Shattered Dreams, is that a newish book?
Crystal
Shattered Dreams isn't Crabb's latest, but it's newer than some--2002 maybe?
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