Dreams Really Can Come True

I remember growing up how people had told me, and I had believed with all my heart, that no one lived happily ever after. The kind of marriage where you held your husband's hand even when you were both old and gray.  The kind of relationship where you could miss your husband even after seeing him nearly every day for the past decade. I believed that such a marriage was as rare as a unicorn dancing under the end of the rainbow. I never really believed it could happen.

Now that I have been VERY happily married to my husband for nearly 9 years, I have to think, "Why did I ever let people convince me this could never happen?"

This year I have decided not to let my other dreams be shot down by others who say I will never see them come to be. I have to believe I will get to do and be a part of those things I really look forward to. I choose to believe in my dreams, even if others see no value in them. Even if others think dreams are nothing beyond careless imaginations. I am going to see my dreams come to be! I am going to work like they are mine for the taking, and I am going to pray and hope God will lead me to them just as he did to my amazing husband.

I will someday look back at this time of uncertainty and ask myself again, "Why did I ever let people convince me this could never happen?"