Dusting Off Dreams & Visions

Dreams and visions is a topic that comes up repeatedly here in Robbymac-world. I did some quick checking from the first few weeks after I started this blog, and discovered that even in this blog's infancy, the topic of dreams and the death of dreams was an early theme (Light the Fire Again and Blurred Vision). Unfortunately, Haloscan doesn't archive comments for very long, which is a shame because there were 40-50 insightful comments per post.

What DID come up repeatedly was that many people had given up on their dreams, or seen their dreams die in some way, and were trying to figure out what to do with that. For the majority, the decision (at that time) was to explain away their former dreams as immature or wishful thinking. The pain that they'd gone through as their dreams died was too much to consider going through again.

It was almost like an X-Files kind of moment: people wanted to believe that their dreams and hopes were from God, but lacking evidence, were losing hope and trying to make sense out of life -- if I may be permitted to use the dreaded "post" prefix -- post-dreams/vision.

(continue reading Dusting Off Dreams & Visions)