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Have your dreams
The wish to acquire something
Yearning what is good in life
Keep dreaming as you go on
May you have the strength
To climb over big mountains
As you keep marching ahead
Towards your destination
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Have your dreams
Always believe in yourself
Let your heart have desires
Blossoming into huge hopes
Then nothing will be difficult
Nothing, nothing at all
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Have your dreams
Let your happiness soar
And take you to your paradise
Where your every wish is fulfilled
For you and your loved ones
May you be content in life
Then nothing will be difficult
Nothing, nothing at all
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Have your dreams
Get to talk about your dreams
To people who’ll support you
Sing your song all the way
Do something good with your life
That pleases our God all along
Then nothing will be difficult
Nothing, nothing at all.
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It’s been eight years since I became a stay-at-home dad. Time passed by like a wind blowing. This is not my dream life but circumstances – my inability, and over owning of my responsibility based on emotions led me to taking this route. It’s like taking a route opposite your direction nevertheless, it’s more or less important.
I’ve watched them close – my children. Sometimes I’ve given myself high hopes but at times unable to see the reason I did this. There were times I blame the people around me – them being selfish and not supporting. Yet I always admit that the problem is me. It is me. More of now than before because of my ailing body.
Being with children – their changing emotions and purity of their heart, and me not working any full-time job for now, in this fast-moving world, so a plethora of emotions run over me even on a good day.
Just like every other parent, I want them to do better than me in life. I want them to have dreams like me in their younger days. As I’ve mentioned a certain number of times before, I have my dreams while spending my time in the fields and in the woods.
Dreams keep you going:
If it’s in the woods, I remember the scent of winds blowing as I took shelter in the leaves where I could see myself in my dream home with my dream partner. There were times while my tired body had to take a quick rest on the fallen yellow leaves where I would be dreaming and planning about my future. I grew up working and rearing cattle in the countryside.
It’s always good to have a dream. They were the ones that keep me going. I wanted my children to have dreams in their life. It’s like the unseen rope holding our life’s journey. The day those dreams are lifted, there will be no more willpower to live.
Now, if it’s in the fields the harvesting seasons during the autumn season created a good atmosphere of taking rest and reassuring about the dream I’ve had had. We’d lie down on the haystack where the ripening grasses and fruit added to the scent of harvesting. With the cold breeze blowing as the stars comes down to look at us as we took a good glimpse of the Milky Way.
Those were the days which the city slickers like my children never got to experience the blue sky in the pollution clouded sky due to the emissions of the urban mechanism or way of living. However, each person according to their ability and longing for something good still hasn’t lost their dreams.
Talking about dreams with them:
I like telling these tales of our lives in the countryside to my children. Yet there’s one hindrance that keeps bothering us due to my chronic neuro disorder. As much as possible I don’t want my children to be affected by my acquired disorder. I want them to have their dreams.
The fulfilment of our dreams is not in our hands. We need support, we need people whom we get to talk to, as we happily pursue our dream to soar like the eagles.
However, the bottom line is that if our way of living pleases the Lord, it’s worth it. If God gets magnified in whatever we do or through us – being one of his precious sons and daughter, I’d consider we’re serving our purpose of living.
Hearing you:
Amongst the multitude of the dwellers of this planet, that we or they may cry out just as Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request. God is hearing our inner cry.1 Chronicle 4:9-10.
Have your dreams, my children. Hold onto it with the help of God!
I also have a dream that I will get better and better, spiritually, mentally, and physically with God’s help. Who knows I might get healed completely! Dream on…
Now, let all of us take the time to pray for every child. They are our future who will guide us into a new era. They needed protection in this evil world. Let the spirit of God take over their security so they will be safe today and tomorrow!
Have your dreams!
