At "meet and greet" the teacher day, Claire's teacher gave each student a pretty glass stone along with a slip of paper. The paper instructed the kids to place the stone under their pillow while they slept, so that they might have beautiful dreams of their first day of Kindergarten, and so that all those dreams might come true. Claire was totally enamored with the stone - it was pretty and green and shiny, right up her alley! When it came time to tuck Claire into bed that night, she was really hesitant to place the stone under her pillow. Misunderstanding her concern, I assured her that she wouldn't lose the stone. Her fear wasn't that the stone would be lost, but that the stone would work as the note had promised, making, 'all of her dreams come true'; a pretty horrifying prospect to my little literal 5 year old. But hey - I'm right there with her, I'm a grown adult and I certainly wouldn't want some of my dreams to follow me into waking reality!
There are 2 kinds of dreaming, the kind that happens at night, when our subconscious mind takes over and runs rampant, and the kind that happens during the day, when our hearts take over, we allow convention to fall away, and our wants and wishes to flourish. Night time dreams are unavoidable, we just hope for more ones about flying than falling. Day time dreams are optional, and my prayer for today is that all of us would choose to dream. Just for a moment each day, let your heart rule, allow your soul to reach out and be who and what you have hoped to be.
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