Comments on: A Dream-Crusher or Dream-Nurturer?

By: Anita

Anita — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:00:36 +0000

Thanks, Nancy, and Miss Mollie. After yesterday's conference, I realised how important it was to speak encouraging words of blessing over your own dreams–as well as other people's!

http://dreamingbeneaththespires.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/prophetic-decrees.html

By: Miss Mollie

Miss Mollie — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:09:54 +0000

I love this post and you persevered. I was raised with dream encouragers, I kept to practicality. I believe in my children and their dreams, their determination. I believe now in my dreams. As a nursing instructor commented when I was in school, “It will take me six years to get my bachlors. Someone told me I'll be 56, why bother? Because I'll still be 56 in six years, anyways.”
Keep living until you die.

By: Nancy Wallace

Nancy Wallace — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:40:16 +0000

This struck a chord. It is so easy to be a dream-crusher without intending to be. I'm someone who likes to examine all sides of a question, so when an idea is put forward I may catch the vision but at the same time identify all the problems as in “Brilliant idea, but…”

The school where I was a pupil for most of my growing up encouraged dreams and setting goals high, but when you achieved them the praise was diminished by someone saying either that you achieved this because you are naturally gifted or that if only you worked harder you'd do better. You couldn't win really – it was only years after leaving school that I recognised how I'd been affected by that.