Dream
Last Saturday, I held a “dream board workshop” in my home. It was wonderful. There were six of us ladies there, ranging in age from thirteen to fifty something! How great is that?!
It was a three hour workshop where I shared my story of how the concept of having a dream board came into my life. Then I shared what a dream board is and lastly, I told of the difference that having a dream board has made in my life. Now, for the best part! After sharing my story, we then all made a dream board for ourselves! If you were there and just heard my story, you most likely would say, “That sounds like a great idea and a wonderful thing – to make a dream board.” But when you get home, you get busy with all the things you do in life and it’s easy to put aside sitting down and actually doing or making a dreamboard. This way, at the workshop, the ladies have already committed to being gone from home for three hours and I have all the supplies there for them: the poster board, the magazines, scissors, glue sticks, markers, etc. And when sitting around a big table and making your dream board together with others, it is so much more alive, active and fun!
To tell you what a dreamboard is and the difference it made in my life, I will share with you a small excerpt from my upcoming book where I state:
It was for a homework assignment from my life coach that I made my first dream board in November 2006. My dream board was an assignment to help me look forward and not back. It was my dreams, passions, desires, and God’s words of truth to me on poster board. I had words of songs and Scriptures, as well as words and pictures cut out of magazines, all on my dream board. My dream board helped me look forward and persevere. It helped me believe what was true instead of what I was feeling. It made God tangible to me. It showed me my progress. My dream board literally saved my life! I truly believe that.
From my above words, you can tell that I am passionate about dream boards and the power they can have in people’s lives!
My favorite part of having a dream board workshop is at the very end when each person holds up their dream board and tells us about it; why she put this picture or that word on it etc. You can see the pride and joy in her face and the hope that she has for her future, as she talks about her dream board. It is a very powerful thing!
I am a visual learner, so I have posted some of my dream boards for you. Know that every person’s dream board is different, because we are all different, with different dreams, passions, desires, goals etc. So your dream board will not look like my dream board and that’s 
ok because you are uniquely you. My dream boards have become simpler and more focused over the years. I now say that my “dream boards” are more “believe boards” to me. For when I look at my dream board on my wall, it reminds me of the things God is doing in my life right now and the things He wants me to believe! I love the picture I found in my World Vision magazine (Winter 2012 issue, p. 5). I posted it here for you. Look at the joy on her face; it is beautiful. Her kitchen, right now, consists of two buckets hanging from the ceiling, but she is believing for a kitchen with a refrigerator, a sink and stove one day. Take a close look at that picture. Now that is believing!
Oh, dear one, I pray that you will believe that you are beautiful, because you are uniquely you. You have value and worth, because God made you and He loves you. You are the apple of His eye. Now, go out there and dream, because “nothing is impossible with God” (Luke 1:37).
Application Questions:
- What are my dreams, passions, desires, goals?
- What is stopping me from living them?
- How have my dreams and passions gotton buried over the years and how can I unbury them?
- What does God see in me that I don’t see in myself?
- What does He want me to believe, about Him, about me, about life?
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