Dear Joseph,
I want to tell you some story. My life has always been a dream fulfilled. Yes, I live with imagination, with hopes and prayers for my future. Then a teenage me found something that I feel should be pursued until I get it. It’s eventually fill my dreams, my night prayers, and become the goal of all the things I do. Until now.
However, there are always times when I feel to give up. I’ve come this far, but the dream was not even peeping from behind the door. Should I give up?
Then I remember when you dreamed that one day your father and brothers would bow down to you. I also remember when you tell them about your dream. Do you remember what your father comment to you? What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your mother and I and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the earth before you? [Gen 37:10]. And you brothers response even worse, Look, this dreamer is coming! Come therefore, let us now kill him and cast him into some pit; and we shall say, ‘Some wild beast has devoured him.’ We shall see what will become of his dreams! [Gen 37:19-20].
But the fact, it’s finally happened!
Apparently all I’m living is a process. Just like you said;
Dream are conceived long before they are achieved. The period of time between the birth of a dream and it’s realization is always a process.
I was embarrassed to realize I – many times – had the desire to give up. The process that I live not comparable to what you experienced. And you did not gave up.
I remember your words when I tell all my give up things; Do not give up on your dream even if you did not start off well. Do not give up on your dream even if your family does not support it. Do not give up on your dream even the journey is full of surprises. Do not give on your dream even if it takes a long time to realize it. Because you never know what God’s timetable will look like.
The point is never give up on your dream!
Thanks Joseph. You’re inspired me.
Lots of love,
A.
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*my summary from John C. Maxwell’s book – Running with the Giants, chapter Joseph.
