THE GIFT OF A DREAM (31); ITS TIME TO SLEEP!!!

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A good sleep is synonymous to a good dream, so what I actually mean is that it is time to dream. As the year comes to an end am certain that you will begin to have dreams and visions concerning the New Year. One thing that is absolutely important that you consider as you envisage the New Year, is mapping out the team that will help accomplish your dreams. No great or significant success can be achieved alone. The lone ranger phenomenon is an outdated one.

Have you ever wondered how little bees build such magnificent hives and keep up the production of large quantities of honey? The simple answer is a vision backed up by a team. An increase in the temperature of a bee hive can hinder the production of honey and indeed the reproductive circles of the bees themselves, thus on a warm day about half the bees in a hive

THE GIFT OF A DREAM (30); THE CHRISTMAS DREAM

Jesus

As we celebrate yet another Christmas and I consider all the paraphernalia that accompanies the season, the merriment, carols, hampers, exchange of gifts, reunion of friends and families huddled together over meals and much laughter, it is easy to lose sight that the entire Christmas package was a dream in the mind of the Almighty God, a plan hatched from before the world’s foundations to save man from sin and deliver the gift of salvation.

This is how Brain L. Habor puts it in His Ministers Manual of 1993. When Pope Julius I authorized December 25 to be celebrated as the birthday of Jesus in A.D. 353, who would have ever thought that it would become what it is today. When Professor Charles Follen lit candles on the first Christmas tree in America in 1832, who would have ever thought that the decorations would become as elaborate as they are today. It is a long time since 1832, longer still from 353,

THE GIFT OF A DREAM (29); LIBERATION IS HERE

"I am leaving this legacy to all of you...to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die - the dream of freedom and peace." - Rosa Parks
 

Rosa Parks

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala., thus launching the modern-day civil-rights movement. Much of the media described her as a tired seamstress, no troublemaker. Rosa Parks was no tired seamstress. As she said of that brave action she took, “The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” But the media got it wrong. Rosa Parks was a first-class troublemaker. She was raised to believe that she had a right to be respected, and to demand that respect. Jim Crow laws were entrenched then, and segregation was violently enforced. Rosa was riding on a city bus Dec. 1, 1955, when a white man demanded her seat. Parks refused, despite rules requiring blacks to yield their seats to whites. Two black Montgomery women had been arrested earlier that year on the same charge, but Parks wasn't perturbed-she had a dream.

What was all this trouble for? Some might ask. The truth is Rosa Parks, didn't care what hardship her stand would cause her; topmost on her mind was LIBERATION for the blacks.

Beloved, the same way over 2000 years ago, a saviour who is Christ the Lord, was born, to go through the trouble of seeing all men LIBERATED, from the law of sin and death - from the bonds of the devil. He wasn't perturbed by the pain, why? He had a dream. As we celebrate today, let's take advantage of the liberation Jesus Christ has made available for us all, by His birth, death and resurrection. Happy Christmas!

THE GIFT OF A DREAM (28): WRITE YOURSELF A CHEQUE

"It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?" - Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey

Most people have dreams, and it could be anything. But whatever it is, that dream is an important part of you; and you should go for it. The first step is, knowing what you want - that thing you envision yourself doing with your life. That passion, that makes you jump out of your skin with excitement and makes you feel whole when you're doing it. That monstrous desire of your heart that pulls you back up every time you fall. That's what I'm talking about here.

THE GIFT OF A DREAM (27); THE ONE IN THE MIRROR!

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” - Albert Einstein

We have been asking the question “what happened to your dream?”, that great vision you had, that passion that drove you, until you saw a duplicate that failed, someone that failed trying to do what you are dreaming of and you stopped shut in your tracks and your passion died. I have come to discover that one of the reasons why people give up on their dreams is that someone ahead of them has failed trying to do what they were dreaming of achieving and thus left them with a negative picture of their future. I call it negative peer pressure, and peer pressure can be positive when you are surrounded by many successful examples.

Em Griffin in his book The "Mindchangers" describes an experiment done by Solomon Asch with groups of 12 people. They were brought into a room where four lines of unequal length were displayed. They had to decide which two were the same length and publicly vote for their choice. Person after person after person (11 in all) voted for the wrong line-