The Dream Builder

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Our dreams define us. They are visions of the life God planned for us before the world began and the reality of the coming kingdom. Each heart is drawn to these unique images, guiding a lifetime of choices, large and small.

Turning our reality into dreams is exhausting work that takes years of love, work, and an enduring effort. We all require help of different types – articulating the dream, encouragement to continue through adversity or completing the hard work. We create incomplete drawings, stockpile construction materials that seem random and generally muddle through an effort to make our eyes closed world match the reality around us.

You are a dream builder. For those fortunate enough to let down their guard and ask for help, you painstakingly convert life’s messes into enduring truths. A lifetime of training – studying puzzles, practicing techniques, disciplining your body, constant study, and watching/listening for where you are needed – has readied you for your call.

You stand ready to serve at a moment’s notice, always sensing when to step in, pick up debris and turn it into a blessing. “Not today” and “not my thing” will not cross your lips; “I’ll be right there” is something we can count on from you in an uncertain world. Whatever storm has come, the dream builder patiently picks up pieces, cleans them off and builds someone’s corner of the kingdom.

Servants don’t get to choose how early they start or at what hour the task is complete. You rise early and stay until the work is done. The job is never complete until the mess is gone and an enduring beauty remains, matching the plan that God laid out before creation. There are many gifts of the Spirit, but only a few people embrace what they have been given, realizing that their gift only has value when it is shared with others.

To many people, life as a carpenter is a strange choice for the firstborn son of the High King. The dream builder understands. The smell of sawdust, the beauty of a finished piece, the joy received from another seeing part of their vision exist in their eyes open world are what drives the dream builder on.

Your identity is now, but your reward is not yet. For a time, you will live as a lowly carpenter, but know that in a kingdom where faith and action are the bloodline of royalty, you stand as a son of the king.

My blessing is to speak out loud your identity as

The Dream Builder

Jimmy McAfee