Saturday, February 5, 2011

Everyone has Oceans to Fly. . .

Everyone has oceans to fly, as long as they have the heart to do it. 
It is reckless? Maybe, but what do dreams know of boundaries?

Amelia Earheart, from Amelia


My ocean is The Meadows. My feet will be firmly planted in my home day after day, and yet, I will be flying my dreams. 
It won't be easy. In fact, some days it will be down right difficult and I'll wonder why I took off.

And it's definitely "reckless". After all, I'll be loving children who are going to die from terminal illness and my heart will be broken repeatedly as I say goodbye. And I'm going to love on children who will require every ounce of physical and emotional strength I have, to meet their most basic needs. But as Amelia stated above, dreams don't know boundaries. They don't know limits. 

When you're living out your dreams, there are no boundaries. 

If you're living out someone else's dream, then yes, there is a limit to what you can give. Because it's someone else's dream, not yours. But when it's yours that you've been called to, there is everything necessary, deep inside of you,  to live it out every. single. day that you wake up because some hidden wellspring flows up and out of your heart to answer the call.

My ocean is a kingdom of children within my home. 

What's yours?