(David) It’s so easy to get excited about the possibilities that the future holds and forget about the things we need to be doing now to get there. Why is this? Because it is not exciting. It’s fun to get married and begin a new life together. Its exciting to start a new job, buy a new car, move into a new apartment or your first home! But it isn’t exciting to sit through premarital coaching, to update your resume, fill out 30 job applications, save money for a down payment, or document your last five years of financial history in order to secure a loan! But with-out doing these things first, we will never get to the exciting stuff later.
(Laurel) After I graduated High School I remember the feelings of joy from finishing/closing a chapter of my life. I was a grown up. Boy did that give me a rush. I began to think about the next exciting thing I would do; college, travel the globe as a peace corp volunteer, rock off to a new city to become an artist (mind you I was not what you would call talented) ...give me the next thing I’m ready. College began in September for me and I was unable to focus on my studies because my mind was so engaged in the next adventure I was going to take that I did poorly in my first and only semester at that particular school. This should have been my first warning signal...***BEEP BEEP BEEP*** Living in my future was ruining my present. Now, before I get too far into my revelation here I would like to tell you that dreaming for our future is using our creative faith muscle that God wants us to exercise. But we can not forget that the day to day consistencies are what take us into those dreams. Dream about those trips to Europe that you will take with your spouse; just be sure you are putting money in a savings account for them instead of investing in the latest shoe sale at Nordstrom.
