“For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you, not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future” Jeremiah 29:11

I love the ability God has given us to dream, to use our imagination.  Imagination, I feel, is something used so little now compared to years ago.  I remember playing regularly on a ladder that was laid flat on my Nan’s back yard with my brothers and imagining it was a huge ship.  You weren’t allowed to step off it or you would drown in the sea (unless it was lunchtime, in which case nothing mattered but food!).  We would imagine great voyages and fighting with pirates.  Children seemed to use their imagination so much more before the types of toys they have now that are all singing and dancing.  My son loved the Tweeny ‘Jake’ and I was so excited for him when my mum bought him one for his third birthday.  I knew he’d love it!  It was quite a surprise when he opened it and all he did was shake it and say “What does it do!”

We live in an age where everything is done for us and sometimes become lazy even in our dreaming and especially in working with God to make those dreams come to fruition.  I had dreams in my heart that had faded due to busyness and illness.  In January 2015 God spoke to me through a word a friend gave in church and it changed my life.  She said “I feel God is saying there is someone here who is like a ship that is stuck in the harbour and God is saying that while ever it sits there it’s getting damaged.  God is saying it’s time to set sail out onto the ocean”….I knew this word was for me and in relation to the dreams in my heart.

Are there lost dreams in your heart?  Do you need to begin dreaming again? Helen Burns once said “While ever there is breath within you God can use you and do great things in you”  Dream big – don’t just get stuck in one place, and allow God to work in those desires He has for you and has done since you were planned in the secret place.