Dreams

     All of us dream.  Some of us have big dreams and small dreams, little wishes and big ones.  It's always so much fun when those dreams come to pass; you've finally been able to realize the thing, that before was only a nice distant thought.  Unfortunately most of us also know what shattered, broken, delayed dreams are.
     We can relate with the little girl who finds herself sitting beside a broken splintered wood heap that once were her dream.  Her dream, play house.  She had spent hours dreaming of all the fun and memories she would make in her little house.  The friends she'd have over.  The parties.  The sleep overs.  Everything a little girl would dream of.  Only to find herself sitting in a puddle of tears by the ruins that once were her dreams.
     Daddy, her big protector, the one who had helped her build this house . . . had He helped her dream, to build, only to take it back down?  The little girl struggles to wrap her mind around how this could be love.  Something so unfair!!!  She sees all the other lovely houses, and stares blankly at the ruins in front of her.
     Across the field walks Daddy, and stoops to wipe the fallen tear and smiles with those eyes so full of compassionate love.  "Girly, it IS because I love you!  You see I have dreams too.  My plans and My dreams for you are way beyond yours.  You dream big but I dream BIGGER!  I had to take your play house down, so I could reconstruct what I'm dreaming for you.  Give Me the broken pieces, the splintered broken wood, and just watch what I will do with them.  And He looks deep into the little girl's eyes, winks, and pulls her to her feel . . . you just watch!!!"
     And so God speaks . . . then I wonder if I really remember Whose talking, Who this really is!!!  This is the One who created the universe, the galexies, the complexity of the human body, so many wonderful, amazing things, that boggle my mind.  When God plans, He makes plans out of this world, way beyond us, more then we would ever dream of!  So God wants to change our plans, my plans??  Who am I to question the way He oporates, what He's doing?  If it's a God thing, I most likely won't understand it all.  He's God!!!  And when God dreams and plans . . . He dreams BIG!!!!
     I have a feeling our human minds don't look at big the same way God does either.  His scale of big is so often different then our scale.  What if part of the big plan, is the way it draws us closer to Jesus, teaches us to take our heart ache to him, to find our total security and fulfillment in Him!  And really . . . that is BIG!!