Dream Yielding
If you think of yourself as a dreamer—someone who has done the work to unlock their adult imagination, however arduous that climb out of “left brain las” has been…
If you’re a dreamer by nature and since childhood, you’ve coped with life by leaving, just a little bit…
However it started for you, I’m sure the title of this is cringe-worthy enough—so way to go, not flitting at the sight of a “yield,” kite string, air balloon basket, or an anchored boat—if you will.
Maybe you’re even a secret dreamer, who has willed yourself to make your vernacular mundane or predictable, just so you’d get the criticism off your back, so you could enjoy your inner life in peace…
Whoever you are, this is for you:
How many years will you put the dream
On hold
For finances
The right crew
The energy level you need
To make the dream complete?
You’ve been strategizing
All this time
Asking yourself,
“How do I get out of
This town?”
There’s something else at play
You’re not alone.
Your Muse,
Your Dream Consultant
Has an opinion too,
As to what to do
With you
He knows
Where you want to go
But He’s the Ultimate
Strategist
And He knows how
To get you there
In style
With just your kind of flair
Just when you
Had that little
Check in your spirit
Telling you
It wasn’t time—
(Bravo, you!
Waiting is hard
And self-control
Has gone fashionably
Out of style)
Here,
In the “not time yet”
Time,
The Gardner
Was cultivating the
Temperature
Controlling the rain
Planting,
Planning
Down to a T
Just when you
Asked yourself
If you had what
It will take
To accomplish
Your dream,
You didn’t.
And He knew
He was stocking
Your shelves
Helping you to have
The resources
To keep your dream
Alive
So it could be
Sustained
For all of time
All the questioning
Of yourself—
Of your dream,
Wasn’t a waste
Because actually,
That toil was your gain—
Musculature
In maintaining
The flame
Making sure you
Had commitment
And heart
To be the stage
To finally put on
The play.
I know it’s been hard,
But don’t tarry another minute
Counting the cost
Waiting has been your lesson to learn
All the time
You’ve spent in preparation
Will prove
Valuable
All the times you yielded your dream over
Will prove to have built some
Power in you
Rest in the knowledge
That You were made
In the image of The Dreamer—
Your dream was made
Of His stuff
It actually was created
With the materials He gave
And, Oh, He loves to create.
Don’t lose heart just yet,
Your dream is
Coming.
And when it
Appears—
The part you
Couldn’t
Prepare without
His help,
Will make you drop your jaw
It will work
So well.
His building and construction
Were so good,
You couldn’t have planned for the
Dream to pan out
Quite this exact.
“He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” —Jim Elliot
