Where did my dream go?
It's going on 4 months since I left home and moved to LA to pursue acting and writing. To chase my dream, that for years I was scared to believe was who I am.
4 months might seem like nothing for some. What is that, a semester in college? But when you start out broke, still are broke, and your car that you use as your bed every night gets smaller and smaller. Or when every day that you wake up you wonder if today might be the day for some over due back-pay from your dream to come your way. 4 months seems like years....no decades! I guess it's true. "The dream is free, but the hustle is sold separately."
So I know some of you are in the same boat reading this. Right now none of my circumstances changed, but I am soaring on cloud 9 because as the Psalm goes.
"I would have lost heart, unless had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. " Psalm 27:13
I believe 100% that I will see the goodness in my life, not because I am naive, but because I believe. Many people walk around waiting for something to happen for them. They say, "when I see it then I'll believe it." No, I believe it, therefore I see it, and I came to take it. People, pain is temporary, but if you quit, it will last forever. You need to go take a step out there and get your worth, go chase your dreams. If you don't take it, life will take it from you.
Sure, I might not have the money or the house I want. I might not have the acting jobs I thought I would have by now, but they are coming, not because they are looking for me, but because I am going out and taking them.
Some might say, "Well, I'm waiting for God to move and show me. I am waiting for a sign." Let me end with this.
"There was once a farmer that had a meadow full of rocks, the weeds had grown up and rocks were scattered everywhere. The farmer walked through it and began to think that if I just put a little work into this, it could be one of the best rock gardens around. So the farmer went to work, and before long he had completed one of the most beautiful rock gardens in the area, people came from all over to enjoy the garden.
There was one man who also came to see this beautiful sight, and when he was done walking through the majestic garden he went up to the farmer. He wanted to make sure that God was getting His rightful credit.
The man asked the farmer "Sir do you know that God made the the rocks and the meadow and he caused the rain to come and the sun to shine for this place to grow?"
The Farmer knowing what the man was getting at responded. "Yes, God is good to give me this place and has kept his promise of rain and sunshine to help it grow. He also created me, and given me this dream and has equipped me with the hands and feet to create what this place has become. But I will say this, you should have seen what it looked like when it was just God taking care of it."
I am telling you guys you have genius within you, those ideas that seem bigger than you, are not there by accident. You are still breathing, that's proof enough that you've still got stuff to accomplish. You have every reason and every right to go out and get it because the dream never left, it's still there. Life is full of goodness, success is not in short supply. Go get it!!
- JB