Dream Big

Thinking back to a younger, more fragile age of about ten, I thought my life would look a lot like Taylor Swift's does right now. I imagined it all: How I would audition for American Idol just to end up winning it. I would sign with a record label and produce music that everybody loved. The songs I wrote would be so well-rounded that they could be acceptably played on any station rising to the tops of various charts. I would be invited to all the award shows looking fabulous, giving God the glory in my acceptance speeches. I would vastly become this teenaged superstar without regular things to worry about like 

bills 

or 

paparazzi

or

heartbreak.

My life was projected to be what I would have once labeled perfect.

Well I don't believe in perfect anymore.
Well, I mean, I do believe in the perfect Son that died for our sins and saved the world but not in earthly perfection. I do not believe in the perfection of people or modern day lifestyles.

Although, I believe in
hope
& fairy tales.

I believe that there are people that will genuinely love you as best they can & at times, that may feel like the most perfect love.

 I don't believe we can fathom what perfection truly is, so we make it up. We imagine things that we'd like to believe, whether or not they may ever happen or be. We dream big.

& I absolutely believe in dreaming big.


Do not be afraid of wanting to make the most out of what the Lord has put you here to endure.
Taylor Swift wasn't afraid.

 Jesus wasn't afraid.

The One who calls you is faithful and He will do it.

1 Thessalonians 5:24

Therefore, the Lord will place you where He needs you and make of you what He will.

And because life hasn't turned into anything I'd believed it would, He has created a beautiful testimony of faith, service, hardship and blinding trust that has held my hand and guided me, leaving me marked.

When I was weak, He carried me and now despite my own plans He was the one who did it.

Trust in the Lord and do good; Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.

Delight yourself in the Lord; And He will give you the desires of your heart.

Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him and he will do it.

Psalm 37: 3-5