Last weekend, Josiah and I got away just the two of us for our first overnight weekend trip since Greta was born.
Yes, it was longgg overdue. (Greta’s almost three!) Excited was an understatement.
We spent the weekend eating good food, having long uninterrupted conversations, talking about our dreams, swimming in the luxurious hotel pool, resting (read: ordering room service and watching lots of Friends), and exploring the mountains.
The trip was one part babymoon (baby #2 is due in December!), one part birthday celebration (I turned 27 on Monday), and one part anniversary trip (we celebrate eight years of marriage next month!).
It was really everything we could’ve asked for in this season of life (and will absolutely be one of my mental happy places for the rest of the year and beyond).
Now, we’re back to our routine of everyday life—which happens to be pretty full right now.
This trip didn’t solve all of our problems or take any of our endless to-do’s off our plates (in fact, it added some).
But it gave us life and reoriented our perspectives so we could come back and live everyday life with joy, perseverance, hope, and a sense of purpose.
And I realized, dreams do the same thing in our lives.
Cultivating your dreams doesn’t solve all your problems. It won’t completely “fix” your life. It doesn’t take away your responsibilities and endless tasks. It doesn’t heal the exhaustion that often comes with adulthood and just being human.
But, in some supernatural, beautiful, only-God-could-do-it-way, dreaming gives us life.
Dreaming is deciding to trust that you were made for more than consumption and hustle and conformity. It’s owning your identity as a co-creator with God and running with it. It’s identifying the unrealized desires in your heart and patiently bringing them to life alongside your other priorities. It’s deciding that growing your soul and building something beautiful with God—for your good and the good of others—is worth it.
Dreaming breaks us out of the very human cycle of dread, boredom, overwhelm, hopelessness, burnout, and fear.
We’re still probably going to feel tired. Life will still have hard moments. We’ll still have responsibilities.
But dreaming allows us to live with tired hope.
When life feels exhausting, overwhelming, heavy, confusing, and even hopeless, dreaming can carry us through.
And even for that little bit of tired hope in a hard world, dreaming is worth it.
Book Updates
My book, Dream On, comes out in less than a month (on Tuesday, Sept. 24!). I have so many tasks left to get this thing out there, but as I consistently prioritize it (read: waking up at 5am to work before Greta’s up), I’m crossing off tasks pretty quickly.
Launch team members have started to read their early digital copies of the book, which feels SO crazy and surreal. I can’t wait to see more of the book in the wild.
This is an exhausting, but exhilarating season.
Talk to you next week (probably more about dreams because that’s what’s on my mind lately).
🎈Sarah
THIS is so good, Sarahgirl.