The Manifestation of Dreams: Dream to reality process!

I work two jobs and one of them is the night shift. So when I'm not working there are times when it's hard for me to sleep. I'm on vacation right now and I'm up late. It's 5:28 am. I just finished watching the movie the Soloist with Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. I must say not only was I inspired but the movie got the wheels in my mind turning overtime. If you haven't seen the movie you really should take a look at it. The film is bound to give you a new perspective about the homeless and quite possibly cause you to question the decisions you make today that ultimately mold your future. A brief sum up of the movie; A desperate news writer for the LA times fighting to stay gainfully employed in a company undergoing layoffs and cutbacks, finds a peculiar subject for his articles. The topic of discussion is a homeless man by the name of Nathaniel Ayers. Nathaniel is a former student of Juliard and is quite possibly a musical genius. The writer becomes intrigued at Nathaniel's talent and as a result they form a friendship and etc. The thing about this movie that has my mind going and this is something that I ponder from time to time; How does a person make their dreams a reality!! What do you have to do to make every bright idea every good deed every fantasy transform from a thought in your head to actuality? That is the question that I think about most often. How do we change our reality? Sometimes I look at a homeless person and I think to myself: That guy/girl has a family somewhere, a mother, a father maybe even kids, how did he/she get to that place in their life? What decisions did they make and what went wrong? I was praying to God after watching this movie and I said in prayer that I don't want to ruin my life by erroneous decision making. I said to God in prayer that I don't want to be another talented individual with gifts that I know can make an impact on the world for the Kingdom of God that just lost his way. Staying in the will of God is not easy, I'm straining to walk in His way and not be in the way! As I was writing I thought of the Bible, it's a road map to our future. It does hold the answers to our future, meaning it is a GPS system for us on our journey to our dream destinations. I'm struggling to take direction. I live for Jesus Christ but walking according to his GPS system can be very taxing at times. I find myself going places that I don't want to go, places that our not pleasing or gratifying. Right now, I'm in a place in my life I don't want to be in, I'm in a place in which I have nothing that I want. Don't get me wrong I have everything I need-thank God-but it's just not what I imagined. My dream and the manifestation of it looks very dim and far off. I keep making decisions that I'm not proud of and these decisions have consequences that aren't easy to get over. I'm trying to go thru the fiery trials of life as a good soldier but things aren't going as planned. To sum it up in my trainers word's while working out at the gym "I have to build a higher tolerance for pain". The pain of life can be agonizing but I find that by keeping Christ first that pain makes sense, life is best defined like such the sequence of unpredictable events that our beyond ones control. That's it, that's life another way to put it is "Stuff happens". Right now I'm just trying to make sense of this "stuff". I want my "stuff" to be full of substance, meaning and purpose. I'm fighting to believe that I can do all things through Christ; The hardest part about believing that is the "I can" part. Amidst my failure's and my seemingly cyclical screw ups I'm fighting to believe that "I can" through Christ. Why? Because He is the only way, Jesus is the route to take in pursuit of our dream destinations. Christ works!! He is the way to make sense of all this "stuff". The title of this blog is the "The Manifestation of Dreams: Dream to reality process", in writing this blog I've answered my own question of "How do your dreams become a reality?", the answer follow Christ. The Process of this manifestation is us allowing Christ to take control and it's us releasing full and complete control through faith. It's not easy but I'm striving for that result everyday and I'm just praying that Christ loves me and allows me walk in His path for my life after the mistakes I've made, you know. I'm fighting to believe the "I can", and I will accomplish everything my heart is set on because God will provide. I will obey and follow his word, it may take me some time but ultimately I will end up at the finish line. I am an overcomer and all of my dreams will manifest. If success was easy everyone would do it!! I'm more then a conquerer, I've already won!!