DAY 342 -- What is More Important than the Dream???

In April Conference this year, we were challenged to recognize and even record each time the Spirit whispered into our mind little revelations or even big ones.  I imagined that it would be of good report if I started, with our goal to serve a mission, to do just that.  Thus, on June 9th, I started this blog with the purpose of being more sensitive to the Holy Ghost and inspiration.  I have been doing this almost a month. 

I continue to feel inspiration from Father concerning our upcoming mission, but I have also felt His influence on what I am to record on these blogs.  More and more as I record my feelings, my inspirations, and those things given me, I realize the proximity of Father in what I do, what I write, what I ponder about preparing to write daily here.  I am coming to understand a concept.  Please bear with me as I strive to explain this idea.

Dreams and visions, goals, and project to obtain these are wonderful.  Elder Hollands statement goes through my mind daily.  (I will stray a bit here, and return in a minute.)  Yesterday I talked with a musician who is going to help me start pursuing another of my dreams that I have been trying to start for over ten years.  I have desired to write a musical, along the lines of Saturday's Warrior, which will describe the creation of the National Anthem with Francis Scott Key.  All of a sudden, a new dream has been thrown into my path, one that I feel strongly about.  I love this country, our freedoms, the founding fathers, and the history of our nation's birth. So, along with our mission plans, I am going to start working toward realizing this dream also.

Now to return to what I began.  As I have pondered about dreams and visions, as I have prayed about Elder Hollands statement, as I had another dream thrown at me yesterday and the possibilities, the desire to pursue that one also, I feel inspiration telling me that if I never arrive at any of the goals I have right now, even if we are never given the privilege of going on a mission, the effort of striving toward realizing these dreams and visions is what Father would have me to now. 

So, Elder Hollands counsel to me right now, (it may not be for you) is to identify the dream or vision and work toward it.  Whether I ever get there or not is not mine to determine.  But the working toward, the striving to realize this vision, the lessons learned through it, the journey to fulfillment is more important than arriving at a realization of a dream.  That is for me, at least at this point in my life.