• Dreams are Never Free

  Geoff Talbot on August 10 2010

  Creativity and poverty often hold hands and walk down Hollywood Boulevard. Many a creative soul has drifted down those paved sidewalks dreaming of their own star, but struggling to pay the rent. Some say that dreams are free. And while dreaming doesn’t cost you a dime, chasing them can cost you everything.

  If you are going to spend your life chasing dreams, it’s important to make certain that these dreams have been given to you by the God who created you. Sometimes we make our dreams our God -  a very futile thing to do. Futile because a dream can never love you the way God can, the way a friend can, or the way your family or your partner can. Dreams in one sense do not exist. They live in an imaginary vapor that lingers right in front of your nose, forever making promises that can never be clasped in the reality of the moment.

  On the other hand, dreams can be God-given and inspire us to do incredible things against all odds. The trick, therefore, is in discerning whether or not your dream is God-given. How do you know whether your dream has been given to you by your Designer? Can your dream become an idol- a faux God -promising to complete you? In essence, how do you know that you are doing the right thing with your life?

  
  I have some ideas. What do you think? I would love to hear your comments…
  
  1. If you really love it. Not the idea of it but the substance of it. There is a good chance it is a Godly dream. Do you love acting or do you love fame?

  2. You don’t have to be good at it. You can get better? Perhaps passion not excellence is the point of the dream anyway?

  3. Is your dream taking you away from relationships or towards them? If you are losing friends because of your dream it cannot be good. If you are becoming isolated chances are you are obsessing.

  4. Is the focus of your dream yourself or other people? Be honest it is probably a bit of both? How much of each?

  5. Do you have a relationship with God? If you don’t chances are your dream or something else has taken his place.

  I am a big dreamer. I want to make films that change and reach my audience in a powerful and entertaining way. It’s a good dream, but sometimes I make an idol out of my dream and lose sight of the wildly creative God who made our dreaming possible in the first place. The good news is this: He is more patient and gracious than you and I could ever imagine. He is fully aware of our obsessive and fickle nature. He is waiting, His arms are open wide, and his eternal dream is more wonderful than anything we can imagine.

   

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