Several years ago, this question was posed in an interactive class that began a lively and penetrating discussion. What really happens to a vision or a dream or an intention that we have that we don’t complete? Does the dream die or does the dreamer die?
We are spiritual beings having a temporary experience in a physical body. Unfortunately, we have forgotten that, and believe that we are a body subject to the rules and laws of the physical world that surrounds us. We have lost the understanding of the innate laws of the spiritual self that we really are. We have lost access to the light that we are, as described by Jesus in Mt.5:14. We seem to fumble around in the darkness of the human world, trying to make improvements in that world using the human rules and strategies we have learned.
Jesus, our master teacher used the metaphor of “Father” to describe the relationship that we can establish with that invisible spiritual Self within us. In the Israelite culture that Jesus lived in, father was the nurturing, providing, guiding and encouraging figurehead of the family community. Jesus used this idea of “Father” to explain the relationship of the spiritual Self within that is waiting for us to begin a relationship with “IT”, to solve the issues in our lives using spiritual laws.. It is up to us to begin that relationship and begin the path that reinforces that relationship.
To get back to the question in the title of this article, lets look at what happens to dreams and visions. In my opinion, the “Father/Mother”, that spiritual part of who we are, sends us a thought of what is possible just to let us know they are there. If we sink back into fear and the rules of humanhood that tell us things are too good to be true, the dream dies. We file it under the “too good to be true” file, or the “no way I could do that” file, and proceed with struggling in the dark energy of the material world allowing that spark of the divine to languish in the bullpen of life.
The Kingdom is within. The answer is within, the solution is within, the resources are within. It is the Father’s good pleasure to give us the Kingdom of everything. It is up to us to begin the relationship, foster the relationship, trust the relationship and love the relationship.
