The Agony of an Aborted Dream

Your dream, much like an unborn child, needs to be nurtured and developed. There is a tension that exists when a woman finds out she is pregnant and when she feels safe enough to tell the world that she is pregnant. That same tention exists when you know you have the beginnings of a really big dream. When is it safe enough to declare to the world, " I have a dream, this idea will change the world, here is the solution, I know what to do, this is it?"

On many an occasion I have spewed forth my newly formed dream into the world arround me, only to find its fragile undeveloped concepts easily discarded by people with no faith, no immagination, or no consideration for my insecurities. Some have treated my precious creation as spit, to be wiped uncermoniously from the face their minds. Most , did not recognise, that contained in my microscopic idea was a giant of a concept, and much like stepping on an ant, my creation was crushed and trampled on with out remorse or a second thought.

I have learned that there are only a few people in my life that I can trust with the "breaking news" of a hot idea. These are people with an intimate knowlege of who I am, who have proven they can treat my most precious dreams, and thereby treat me, with encouragement, gentleness, and wonder. They are the people in my life who have learned not to laugh out loud when the impossible is proposed. They have learned that dreams need gestation time.That ridicule is the poison of the abortionist. That everything great was once and embryo and that some of my dreams do come true. They have learned that dreams are living entities and the laws of life and death apply as much to an idea as they do to a fetus.

I am learning one of the greatest laws of the universe, and that is the law of timing. I still experience the excitement when I have been impregnated by a dream, but in the early days I am content to experience it growing in my mind, to sense its development, to spend time alone with it.Because one day this living, growing life altering dream will be birthed for all the world to see. I will never again have the opportunity to be alone with my dream, and watch in wonder as God unfolds its marvels one step at a time, for once my dream is born it is no longer mine but the worlds.