Cultivate Her

Dream On

Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 by admin in Leadership

As a little girl I had many dreams I’m sure…

Honestly I don’t really remember what I dreamt for. I don’t really remember any dreams until I was about 13 and thought I was in love with the man of my dream and thought he would be the one I would marry.

Over the next several years, I changed dreams frequently. Mostly because I would talk my self out of them because I didn’t think I could achieve them. I have done this most of my life. I would want something but it would feel so far out of reach that I would just adjust to something different.

I wanted to be in a band, be a flight attendant, a chef. I graduated from one dream which was to make people beautiful, I went to school for cosmetology, worked in salons for 7 years. After a dream of being an educator for a high end product line fell from my finger tips because my boss wouldn’t support me in it, I left working in the salon to go into retail management. Something I never thought I was capable of doing. I have since worked my way up in the company and live a very different life then I ever could have ever imagined having.

But I often think back to that dream I had as a 13 year old girl to be a wife, a mother, married to a pastor or someone in ministry, and I just can’t let go of that dream.

Maybe my dreams were not in God’s plan. But he has given me more then I could have ever imagined.

I still have one big dream that I’m scared to say out loud, but I am not going to stop dreaming it because you never know when they will come true. I have decided to set an age at which I will pursue this dream regardless of my situation at that time.

Our dreams are never out of reach, even when we think everything holds us from following after them. I’m choosing to DREAM ON and believe I can do anything I want to.

Have you let go of a dream because of fear?

Tags: dreams, Jessica Esch