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Dawn R.'s avatar

“Failure is part of God’s design…” Oh how very much we don’t want to face that possibility! I think so many of us believe that if we have a dream, one so deeply seeded we can’t see ourself separate from it, that SURELY it’s part of God’s plan for our life. But when years turn to decades and the dream feels all but lost, perhaps it is time to ask God if the dream was truly his or whether it was our “Isaac”—that good and beautiful thing that maybe we let slip into the realm of idolatry, becoming more important to us than God’s perfect plan. Valerie asked how do we know it’s time to let it die—maybe it’s more about surrender than death. Maybe it’s more about loosening our chokehold and giving God more freedom to orchestrate or not. I don’t know. But thank you, Sara, once again for being raw and throwing it out there for us to feast on.

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Julia York's avatar

Hi Sara, I'm new to your Substack, and I really love/hate this post! (Love because it's full of wisdom, hate because, well, my own dreams feel so precious to me)

I'd be curious to know more about your own experience with the "death of dreams" as it sounds from this post that you actually had a deep dream fulfilled - that of having children. What is your experience with the grief of lost dreams? How would one possibly know when to "let go" of a certain dream?

Thanks for your courageous writing!

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