Breaking Old Dreams

When I was younger I had great plans or should I say great childish dreams.

I was going to marry a rancher down south in the United States and have kids. I was going to be a master horse woman and sought after teacher. The best part of this was I am going to live where is was warm.

I am sorry to say that is not exactly what happened. Actually, none of that happened because I didn’t make it happen. It was just a dream because I did not plan how I was going to get it. But it made me happy as I slugged my way through high school.

When I graduated that dream found its way into a trash can as I struggled to find work and enough money to put good food on the table.

rePurposing Old Dreams

The old dream came to life again this past year as I binged watched “Homestead Rescue” on Discovery+.

There was a reason why I was dreaming that dream in my youth. I was dreaming it because I wanted to have a purpose in my life. Something I can focus on. Something with meaning.

When that dream disappeared, so did my focus. Watching “Homestead Rescue” revived a vision I was given when I was a child in Christ. Seeing the Raney family help homesteaders revive what they started and making their homesteading dreams into a vivid reality set my soul on fire for my own vision. 

Preach New Life into Old Dreams

That rancher ended up being an automotive worker. The ranch is an English Tutor house on one acre of property in a city of 22,000. There are no horses in our yard but there are deer, squirrel, raccoon, coyote, skunk and the neighbours dog.

I am not sought out for my horse training skills but I am sought out for my insight regarding Christian living reEnvisioned.

Revival began with re-purposing my old dreams into my new vision from God. The old is dead and the new will live. The Lord called me to preach new life into my old dreams. To preach new life into my old bones.

He has eventually called me to preach new life, through the gospel of Christ, into women who have aged out of the life they loved.

I guess you can call it “Christian Vision Rescue” coming soon to “Re-Discovery+”.

Do you need confirmation that God fully intends to use your time, talents and treasures even though you have aged out of all the works He has previously assigned to you?

Register for the “Your Way” Series here to re-envision a new life from dead dreams.