Dream Share #1 – Shooting Sand

Reflection

Over the past several months, I’ve had some wild dreams. I’m guessing it may have something to do with the meds I’m taking for my heart.

A few days ago, I decided to capture the primary subject matter of my dreams and write about it in my journal. From there, I will share through my EagleLaunch writings.

For example, after dreaming, I played beach basketball, and the ball was sand. The only way to score was to pick up the sand and dunk it through the hoop. We couldn’t shoot or pass the sand because the glob in our hand would fall apart in the air and return to its normal state of particulate matter comprised of chert, quartz, igneous rock, and shell…google sure does make us seem smart. 🙂

So, what did I do? In my dream, I and a couple of my teammates ingeniously began dunking sand we had in our hand through the hoop, and our team got way ahead because the other team had no dunkers.

Oh, if I could only dunk a basketball one more time. 🙂

Dream takeaways…

1. Sometimes, we hold on tightly to things that aren’t that important because they fall apart as soon as we let go of them.
2. There is nothing wrong with legally and ethically outwitting the competition. As an organization’s leader, one of your primary responsibilities is always looking ahead and finding better ways to serve your customers and employees.
3. If you lead an organization, ensure you have high-level “dunkers” on your team.
4. Allowing any person, place, thing, or situation to define who you are is not good. Although my years of playing basketball taught me many lessons I could use in life, for a few years, it became my identity. When it was over, it turned to sand, and I frantically struggled to find a new identity.
5. There is One who is a rock, never falls apart, and should always be the foundation of our identity. That One is Jesus. May you find Him now.

Ecclesiastes 3:20, “All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.”

Matthew 7:24-27, “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”

P.E.A.C.E.

Jay@EagleLaunch.com