“People only become slaves when they have lost their dreams.”

A thought by Erwin Raphael McManus, (2014-02-25) from his book, The Artisan Soul: Crafting Your Life into a Work of Art (p. 54). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

What is your dream? What is it that keeps you going every day and that energizes you each week to deal with for some the monotony of life? Yes the monotony of life has within it the potential to enslave us. I‘ve got to get up and do it all again but if you are getting up to fulfill a dream then you are not enslaved but you are free.

I hurt so much for people who are enslaved by the worries, the cares, the aloneness and monotony of their lives. I understand that and I have to fight that every day that I get up. And I see even at 66 almost 67 the need for a dream. The battle happens when I tend to be malnourished emotionally and spiritually. If I haven’t spent enough alone time with God for Him to reinforce and rekindle the dream that He has for my life even at 66 going on 67 then I will start to focus on things that will bring me down emotionally and spiritually. We cannot be enslaved to our situations. That is what Satan wants to do.

That’s what Satan did to Adam and Eve in the Garden. He enslaved them to look at what they couldn’t do and caused them to takes their eyes off of the dream life that they had. What is he using to rob you of the dream life that God has for you? It is the feeling of rejection, of being alone, your health, your finances, your age? What is keeping you from the dream life that God has for you?

Why not spend some time with Him and give Him your laments, your pain, your loneliness and let Him refocus your life on the dream that He has for you and He has one. Even if you are 66 going on 67. It may take some work and effort but it will be exciting and worth it.

Also why don’t you go up to the title of this book I am reading, click on it and go to Amazon.com, buy it and start reading it?

So when you are going to spend some alone time with Him?

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