Questions I’ve asked myself today as I scratched the crudely formed words on my phone’s screen with my camera’s drawing tool:
Are my dreams dying a little, day by day, in my workplace? If so, what am I doing to stop that from happening? Or am I allowing this to happen?
Does my workplace fuel my creativity and energy to be the true me? If not, did it ever? Am I lying to myself because I’ve gotten used to the paycheck?
Even if my workplace doesn’t actively foster my creativity and feed my soul with dark chocolate, caramel and grand marnier flavored nuggets of joy, does it at least let me go after the workday is over, to chase my creative goals? If not, am I using my paychecky laced lifestyle to crush my own damn dreams? Hell, do I still have a dream…?
Do you? How do you nurture and encourage your dream(s) to continue growing when you too, are used to the paychecky comfort that comes from a corporate dreamkiller?
A Nobody Who Hopes to Be Sombody One Day 
Dream on Weary Traveler.
© 2001 by Adam Turnage III
Welcome word of rescue for the lone and weary traveler
Pressing forward bravely through continued opposition
Hopes and aspirations resting softly on a dream
A delicate balance-endangered
By the constant threat of failure fear and setbacks
Things once firmly in your loving grasp
Now billow out of reach like wisps of smoke
That dissipate and punctuate your losses
The plaintive cries of Langston Hughes
Disrupt the former quiet of your spirit
Lamenting the fate of the dream deferred
Prompting you to consider the fate of the dreamer
Welcome word of rescue sent to redirect your course
From the angst of your soul to the rapture of your spirit
Resolve conflicting evidence
Illuminate confusion and know
Your heart was never set nor charted in illusion
Never dismiss your dream nor lightly regard it
As a flight of fancy diversion or pastime
The dream is an endowment
A sacred trust
An embryo encased in the nurturing fluid of
Faith desire and urgency
To be rehearsed and affirmed
To be pronounced and declared
To be solidified and made tangible
The dream
A setup for a blessing
A direct deposit from God
Not to bring on impatience or frustration
But that He might come in
And perform it in your life
The dream
A more dramatic way to send His word to you
To set a mark before you toward which to press
And keep a date with destiny
Welcome word of rescue to propel you toward that destiny
Know how God defines Himself as He speaks
And that His will and His word are
One and the same
And that the worlds are framed and ordered by that will
Come to know God
His heart His mind His will
Tap into relationship instead of provision
His heart and mind instead of His blessings
And manifest the dream
Based on the truth of His word
And based on who He is
Make relationship your focus
Discover how God’s works are inseparable from His being
Expect to be healed because God is your healer
Every need is fulfilled
Because God is your provider
And concerning your dreams
The passion and desire you build around them
Brings them into being
As God brings about a defining moment of glory
As He opens His hand
And satisfies the desire of every living thing
Become one with the word
Declare it in your life
And act upon it
And witness your life transforming from hope
To the realm of manifestation
Welcome word of rescue for the lone and weary traveler
Trust in God
Seize hold of your dreams
Head toward the mark
And dream on weary traveler
Dream on!
Rx for the Dreamer (for my Grasshopper)
!. Rise up…EARLY in the morning…EVERY morning…before opposing forces mount an offensive.
2. SOW an investment into the dream…EARLY in the morning…EVERY morning…sow time, talent, and tears…NOW is the time to cry…when you sow in tears, you reap in joy! Do something every morning to take the dream out of the abstract corners of your mind and make a graphic representation to keep before your eyes. Write the vision…MAKE THE PLAN…every part of the process, and set a mark before you toward which to press and keep a date with destiny. It’s in the poem, Grasshopper…lol…
3. REHEARSE the dream…EARLY in the morning…EVERY morning…release it into the atmosphere, transform it from a fantasy to a scheduled event.
4. LIVE the dream…the vision shall speak and not tarry….you’ll find that you weren’t just waiting and twiddling thumbs, but you were an active participant as opportunity intersects with preparation.
Love your gift…love you too…BAM!