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What do you do when you barrel straight into a no from God?

Do you weep and wail?

Stamp your feet and sulk?

A dream, a longing fills your heart, spilling over in attempts to fulfill.

What you thought possible becomes flattened by reality.

Perhaps your dream is not for now, is simply not yet.

Perhaps your dream is not ever, is I’ve got something better.

Either way, you wait.

Either way, you grieve.

Either way, it hurts.

You can flail and fight, you can sit and sulk.

Whatever the emotions, you will have to work through.

You will have to release unto God.

Your plans. Your hopes. Your self.

When you submit your whole self to Him, He remakes it.

He holds it and forms it. He tenderly molds it.

And then?

Whatever the shape of the dream He gives back, it is lovely.

And you love it because He loves you.

You love it because He transformed, both you and your dream.

He gives you your heart and He gives you a dream,

and your heart and your dream now glorify Him,

filling you to the brim with joy.

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