Dreaming is fun -- daydreaming especially. It energizes me to think about possibilities and life changing ideas. People like me are always looking for the next “big thing.” Some people are scared to leave the status quo, but dreamers are eager to find something new and adventurous.

Maybe I’m the product of too many Disney movies (a thought that gives me the cold sweats!). He said, “All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.” No offense Walt... I think you need to step away from the Pixie Dust for just a moment...

I’m going to take a sharp turn in another direction. Let the next statement soak in before you go any farther...

Dreams can kill you.

Go back and read that again.

Wait... what about all that stuff we’ve heard about the importance of dreams and “wishing upon a star”? In fact, lots of Christian authors like to quote a famous proverb, “Where there is no vision, the people perish (Proverbs 29:18).” No arguments here about trying to catch a vision from God, unless...

I came across an interesting thought in a book by Mark Batterson that caught me off guard:

“If God gives you a dream, and the dream comes to life and God shows up in it, and then the dream dies, it may be that God wants to see what is more important to you -- the dream or him.”

At first glance, everyone will say, “Of course God is more important to me!” Really? Think about the shattered dreams in your life. The first person I turn my back on when my dreams fall apart is God. Some never recover and leave Him completely.

I don’t happen to believe God maliciously robs us of our dreams and says -- “There... now be happy!” I don’t pretend to know all of the reasons why God does things, but I trust that God is good. He has my best interest at heart.

If you ever want to gain more of a handle on finding meaning in suffering, read one of the all-time best selling books on the subject, Man’s Search for Meaning. Viktor Frankl wrote it AFTER enduring three years in a Nazi concentration camp in World War II.

Even after all of his dreams were stripped away (along with his dignity and humanity), Frankl discovered that God is really all we have... and He is enough.