Flying today I read something that helped me clarify an idea. Thought you might enjoy it.
When I was a kid my teachers used to write on my report card, "Daydreams." It bothered me that a teacher thought negatively of me, but I kept on daydreaming. As I got older I began to think that daydreaming might have been a good thing. But I didn't have a well-stated hypothesis to support the premise.
Today in United's Hemisphere's I read “Running Strong,” an interview with Billy Mills, a Native American who won gold in the 1964 Olympics. One of his answers, a remembrance of his dad’s advice, was poetic:
“It’s important to pursue a dream that heals you.
With dreams come desire.
With desire comes self-motivation.
With self-motivation comes work.
With work comes success.”
From Hemispheres July, 2008 © 2008 Pace Communications
That’s it. With daydreams come desire. We just call them “dreams” when we’re mature.
Oasis came out of a dream. How could we get Bibles and Christian books to parts of the world where they were hard to obtain? How could we reach millions of folks who wanted but couldn’t find a Bible? To quote Oasis’ President, my son, Matthew, no organization has enough money to subsidize or donate all the Bibles needed to meet the need. So the dream was for Oasis to do it on a sustainable basis so every time we printed a book, it would produce a modest income, enough so we could print it again and again.
That’s it. With the dream came desire, with the desire came self-motivation, with the self-motivation came work, and with work is coming success.
I think the Lord can be in our dreams.
Edward Elliott
Founder/Chairman
