Coming into Restful Plans and Dreams
Admittedly, I can catch my plans and dreams being drained on the useless, the temporal, and the outside-of-my-control. But at my best, the subjects of my plans and dreams are lent to another world.
Focusing on dreams over which I have little or no control is wishful thinking. My mind and heart could potentially spin endlessly on what I’d like to happen and what might deliver me to, for example, where I want to live, what I want to do with my time, the family I desire, etc. But when are my plans ever fully accurate? When does it ever all happen in the way I desire? And if it does, when does reaching my imagined goal ever become what satisfies? In purely my own plans, there can be no sure joy because there can be no sure expectation.
But a heart set on Christ avoids that wastefulness.
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