Prediction: You’re A Winner

Let’s talk dreams. Of course, we’re going to talk about dreams. That’s what we do. Dreams are so simple and fun in the beginning. For some of us, they become twisted and knotted up to the point of getting frustrated over something that is supposed to be so awesome. One problem could be that dreams spend a lot of time in our minds and not near as much time out of our heads.

I could really mess up a great idea in my head. I could figure out everything that could go wrong and never wrote a dream story with a happy ending. I was an expert at burning down a good idea or a goal I wanted to accomplish from start to finish in the space between my ears. I remember my husband looking at me, saying,

“You always predict something you want to try is going to end in failure. With my ideas and dreams, I can’t stop thinking about how they are going to succeed.” 

I stopped what I was doing and turned to look at him. No words could form, and the more I tried I couldn’t get any speech to exit my mouth. He was right. Whoever I had become was positive and encouraging for everyone else’s hopes and dreams but my history as a struggler never allowed me to root for my own success.  

I had to figure out how to think the way he did. I needed a dream protector. Heck, I needed a thought protector. And not too long after the revelation from my husband, I had another revelation in the middle of the day walking down the steps in my home. Out of nowhere my mind thinks the thought that I was scared to live. Scared to live? Where did those words come from? 

Predicting all my dreams would end in failure and scared to live. Wow. Now I was getting somewhere. It was too hard and challenging to take forward steps into my future. Anytime I wanted to reach higher, I backed away. Even when I desperately wanted to try something new.  

I look back in my journal over these two, beautiful miracles of receiving life changing revelations totally about who I was and where I was going, or wasn’t going. Maybe you see yourself, too, in my revelations. Dear God, Protect our dreams. Protect us from fears we don’t even know we are thinking and remove negative predictions over our lives. Amen. 

I also pray that you have the immediate realization you can pull for your own success and avoid predicting failure in those God given dreams inside of you. It didn’t matter anymore that I had rooted against myself for such a long time. And it doesn’t matter for you, either. If you want to dwell on a thought or a word, think on the word, Protect. Think on all variations of protect like protector, protecting, protection.  You and I are worth protecting our thoughts, our dreams, our bodies, minds and our futures. Protect your thoughts and dreams, girl. Protect you, girl.