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I have always been a daydreamer! Today, they would probably call it ADD (attention deficit disorder) and medicate me heavily! I remember even as a little girl; it was best that I not be seated by a window because out the window would go my mind. I recall, like it was yesterday, being excited about playing that game about going on a trip. You know? The object of the game was to name something you would take with you on the trip and started with a letter of the alphabet.
Naming what you would take was not the hard part. Remembering what everyone before you were taking was the kicker! Something tells me I must have been one of the last ones to take my turn because, after listening and trying to remember for so long, my mind took me somewhere else. Again, I daydreamed! It brought me to reality when the teacher asked me what I would take on my trip. I remembered only a few things and wished with all my heart that I had been listening. With an ugly face and major stink eye, the teacher blurted out, "daydreaming AGAIN I see"!
Most of my report cards said I was a "Daydreamer" usually written in capital letters!
I carried this into my adult life and always had a plan, project or a dream rattling around in my head. I would think of what I would teach the kids in my Sunday School class, imagining seeds that would bring them to know Christ or how I could witness to someone I knew didn't know the Lord. I dreamed of how I could make my home sweeter for my family and anyone else who would come into our home. I could make a to-do list as long as my arm!
As I thought about this today, I realized that I seldom daydream anymore. When I start to dream about something, the thought comes that it is too expensive, I'm too old or that's just a silly dream. Bam! The wet blanket of what I call "reality" promptly suffocates that dream! I write this because I think that the Lord is calling me out of that pit. I realized that pits are not only pits of sin but anything that the devil can use to keep us down and keep us from dreaming! Satan chides us when we pray for a lost soul, or the revival of a lost nation "not even in your dreams will your prayers be answered. You are dreaming of the impossible!". With my feet sinking into despair, the miry clay of doubt causes me not to look up but to look at the dark walls of the slimy pit! Today I look up from this pit to my God who encourages us to daydream about the "impossible"! The god who tells us that nothing is impossible with Him! The God who waits for us to call on Him, to cry out to Him!
The Bible tells how to think or even daydream: “Finally, brothers, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.” (Philippians 4:8 ESV)
Jeanie Nihiser
“But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” (Isaiah 40:31)
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