“Your dream, your true passion, is found just outside the boundary of your comfort zone.”

A thought by Les Parrott, (2012-08-02) from his book, You're Stronger Than You Think: The Power to Do What You Feel You Can't (p. 144). Tyndale House Publishers. Kindle Edition.

That is why so many dreams aren’t realized. It comes down to what we want most, our dream or our comfort? Most people come down on the comfort side. But that means they don’t really live.

Have you found that something starts happening to your body when you sit in a comfortable chair too long? It gets so hard to get out. Margaret my wife may ask me to get up and do something for her but I don’t want to. Oh I want to help her but not if I have to get up out of my comfortable chair. But if I stay something will start happening to my relationship and something will start going wrong in my body. My body and my relationships were built for action. The world outside of that chair has real meaning and real potential and it just means that I have to get up to realize it.

Comfort sucks us in doesn’t it? We will do anything to be comfortable but the only dreams that happen in comfort are ones when you are asleep. They are great until you wake up and you realize that it wasn’t real.

Now some make comfort their dream but it is a false dream. Real dreams have risk in them. And risk means that you are fully alive not asleep.

God has built each one of us with a dream attached. It is where really living happens. So many people have never known what real living is and that is so sad. I pray that you are not one of them.

So what is your dream?

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