You were born with a gift.
A man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before the great.
Proverbs 18:16 ESV
You were born with a dream.
You were born to do what only you can do.
Your audience anxiously waits for you to take your stage and give them the “performance of a lifetime.”
Olympians began with a dream.
Pulitzer Prize winners began with a dream.
Presidents began with a dream.
Famous chefs, dancers, athletes, climbers, singers, writers, etc. all began by believing in themselves that God has great purpose for the talent he blessed them with.
Those with dreams don’t step on their stage in a day.
Hard work, sweat and sacrifice are dreamer’s heavy weights they bench-press for years.
Dreamers push away “easy” clutching “for dear life”
The difficult;
The “what could be”;
The impossible;
The belief God created them for greatness.
What’s your dream?
YOUR DREAM COUNTS!
Pastor Victoria Raftery
Founder of Dream Chic at Laurel Church
No dream too small to impact the world.
Dreams aren’t measured in size. Dreams are measured by heart, passion and vision, ingredients of a tried and true Recipe for Success.
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Dreamers aren’t measured in age either.
Young dreamers are inspirational with their willingness to try.
Young dreamers have seeds of greatness waiting their time to bloom.
Cultivation unearths a young dreamers talent.
May grown up eyes notice the dreams of the young and pave the way for them as…
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above…James 1:17
Cova Grace,
A Heart Full of Music and Dance Expression
Dreams aren’t for the weak, the faint of heart.
Dreams require your grueling hours of training and practice.
Dreams require muscles of strength to “hold on” when dream naysayers taunt you unmercifully to “let your dream go”.
Bristol,
An Award Winner of Dedication and Discipline to her Dream
Dreams require you to kick around ideas whose answers might require a grueling mountain climb.
Author John Maxwell says it best, “Everything worth doing is uphill.”
To reach the top requires a climb to the top, yet remind yourself along the agonizing way to your dream, you were born for this.
Hollis and Rosalee
A Picture Painted in Tenacity and Spirit of Adventure
Dreamers are risk takers.
Dreamers shoot the ball risk missing the shot, yet confidently take their shot anyway.
Dreamers stay in the game, they are aggressive not fearing a foul.
Brodie Allen
Our Determined Dreamer
Dreamers keep taking their swing at the plate.
Dreamers are keenly aware that in their persistent swinging, one day contact is made with their dream. It’s inevitable and the stats are in your favor if you just keep on swinging.
You might even surprise yourself and hit your dream out of the park.
Ethan
A Dream Slugger to Reckon With
Young dreamers eventually grow up.
Young dreamers realize in time that not all storybook dreams end with:
“They lived happily ever after”.
Some dreams die.
For the first few years of our marriage my husband grieved during the spring training season of professional baseball.
Reliving his glory days as a varsity baseball catcher in his freshman year each spring training season, unable to let go of his dashed dreams of becoming a professional baseball player until my husband made finally made peace with his failed dream.
Facing the fence of failure some dreamers stop dreaming for fear of failure again.
But we are reminded:
Failure is not fatal.
Only failure to get back up is.
Author / Motivational Speaker John Maxwell
Father and Son Dreamers
Both Singers, Our Son a Tower of Strength
Every day is a good reason to line up for a new race.
Every day is a fresh start to believe for a new dream.
May we never lose sight or great hope of the unbelievable things God wants to do through the dreams he gave us.
20 Never doubt God’s mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this. He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream, and exceed your wildest imagination! He will outdo them all, for his miraculous power constantly energizes you.
Ephesians 3:20 TPT
For those who’ve stopped dreaming, close your eyes and begin dreaming again.
Don’t believe the lie you’ve convinced yourself of that you’re too old.
Life hasn’t passed you by.
You can be fruitful even in the second half of life.
14 ….. Even in their old age they will stay fresh,
bearing luscious fruit and abiding faithfully. Psalm 92:14 TPT
God wants to show off through you to the next generation.
18 God, now that I’m old and gray, don’t walk away.
Give me grace to demonstrate to the next generation
all your mighty miracles and your excitement,
to show them your magnificent power! Psalm 71:18 TPT
IT STARTS WITH A DREAM.
YOUR STAGE IS WAITING.
DON’T BE AN ONLOOKER.
TAKE YOUR STAGE.
YOU WERE BORN FOR THIS.
Sweet Ayva
Born for her Stage
YOUR DREAM COUNTS!
Pastor Victoria Raftery
Founder of Dream Chic at Laurel Church
I love how you personalize each child making them feel so important and so special….just like our Heavenly Father does with us, His Children! No favoritism with you, Lori! You spread the Love evenly and so much of it! Keep Fanning the Flames of their Dreams, for one day they will all come true…..
Love you!
From grandma to Gaga, we truly know the love of grand-parenting.