He felt the muscle of his heart rip apart and there was nothing he could do but watch it bleed all over the dreams he had never meant to have.

Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers and the doom prophets. Judge not by their words but accept advice based on the evidence of actual results. Do not be surprised should you find a complete absence of anything mystical or miraculous in the manifested reality of those who are so eager to advise you. Friends and family who suffer the lack of abundance joy love fulfillment and prosperity in their own lives really have no business imposing their self-limiting beliefs on your reality experience.

Dear God thank you for warm summer nights and candlelight and good food. But thank you most of all for friends. We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us of loving each other the best we can even as you love us. We pray in Christs name Amen.

What We WantWhat we wantis never simple.We move among the thingswe thought we wanteda face a room an open bookand these things bear our names --now they want us.But what we want appearsin dreams wearing disguises.We fall pastholding out our armsand in the morningour arms ache.We dont remember the dreambut the dream remembers us.It is there all dayas an animal is thereunder the tableas the stars are there.

We can be tired weary and emotionally distraught but after spending time alone with God we find that He injects into our bodies energy power and strength.

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that dont.

That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there like a meeting room in a prison. Youre both in the same room yet on different sides and really in different worlds.

I had a dream about you. You took control of my body and forced me to have sex with you. Then you called the cops and the police said I raped youbut I was the one who was raped. If I had known you were that kind of person Id have never voted you into political office in the first place.

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdoms sharp peaks.

The visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.