The Guiding Stars of Life

The Heavenletter written down yesterday is about dreamers and their place in the world. It’s entitled What Dreams Are For, and will come out in about a month.

God said:

Many of My children who are reaching for the heights have been called dreamers, as if being a dreamer were something to be frowned upon. I hope you, beloved, don’t cavalierly dismiss anyone as a dreamer. Certainly, don’t deny yourself the privilege of having dreams, even dreams no one ever dreamed of before. Dreams are the guiding stars of your life!  Without dreams, you would stay where you are. Without dreams, where would you want to go? Dreams reveal desires, and desires are a good thing. What would have manifested if no one had dreamed of them?  You are meant to have dreams. You are meant to exceed the perimeters of the world.

Without dreams, you would be heavy-footed. Tied tightly to the ground, your feet would be leaden. I say again, What about being Heavened? Certainly you would be light of foot in Heaven. Even on your way to Heaven, you would be light-footed. Your heart is connected to all this. You wouldn’t think you are always to be down-hearted or heavy-hearted. Surely you deserve to be light-hearted. Your heart is entitled to have its way, and its way is that it is just fine to look higher than the ground. Why, if you are always looking down because you heard it was good to or for any reason, think of all that you would miss. Ground is good, and the sky is too.

This Heavenletter kept making me think of the movie Happy Feet. This pure beautiful loving penguin named Happy Feet was shunned because he, well, marched to a different drummer. In the world in which he lived, singing was the thing, and tap-dancing was frivolous. And yet Happy Feet had to dance to be happy.

Of course, Happy Feet winds up saving the day.

It does seem like dreamers get into trouble with the world.

I think of Walt Disney. He was scoffed at! No one believed in him and what he was doing, except an aunt who mortgaged her house for him. She lost her house, but never lost her faith in her nephew. Of course, later Walt Disney set his loving aunt up in style.

Did you know Walt Disney had gone bankrupt seven times! Even when he was established and incredibly successful with animation, his dream of theme parks was ridiculed, and he had a hard time getting funding for his “ridiculous� theme park dream.

How many times have we heard or read: “Be realistic.�  I hope I never said it, nor: “Use your head.�

When have we been told to follow our hearts? And yet, where will our hearts take us? To what has never been before, I imagine.

It just may we’ve had enough of the known in the world and are ready for the Unknown.

Three cheers for dreamers!

Posted by Gloria on March 2nd, 2008 under these topics
Heaven Letters, Godwriting Journal

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4 Replies

Reply from One on March 6, 2008

For a few moments I was not catching on to what’s being communicated in this Heavenletter. I was wondering if dreamers were disconnected…head in the clouds without any roots.

I read the Heavenletter excerpt again and remembered I was a dreamer in childhood. I can see now that dreaming helps one look up away from the dross of the mundane. Dreaming is almost like a buffer. By dreaming one may escape or look beyond circumstances that makes one look down. Dreamers have light in their eyes.

Maybe a dreamer is a visionary in the making?

I have used the words, “take your head out of the clouds” and immediately after saying it I felt that I would not like to use those words again.

I think why I am resistant to dreamers is that I feel dreamers get hurt or are taken advantage of and I don’t like to see people get hurt.

Clearly this is about moving beyond like and dislike, seeing the vaster picture, that there is no “getting hurt” or “taken advantage of” and that every experience is progressive.

Thanks Gloria, this is great! 3 cheers for dreamers :)

Reply from Gloria on March 6, 2008

Senor, I think you are absolutely right that dreamers become visionaries. Certainly, dreamers are big thinkers who think outside the box. The world needs the grounded accountants and such, and it needs dreamers as well.

Why should anyone’s feet be cut to fit the bed?

Reply from Jo on March 6, 2008

Three cheers for dreamers! Lately I’ve been thinking that “the lesson” is learning how to keep your feet firmly on the ground while your head is completely in the clouds. Isn’t that what Heavenletters is all about? Keeping Heaven in reach as we navigate this world?

Reply from Charles Fines on March 7, 2008

Perhaps in a sense we all had our start in a dream dreamed by God.

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