Wide Awake

Wow. After another 2 years, I ended up returning here again. Hello world of blog - it's nice to reacquaint myself after such a long time.

I don't think I'm going to bother trying to fill in all the details here of what's been going on these past two years. There's just too much goodness that God has blessed both Kat (who is now my incredible and lovely wife of 8 months) and I over this span of time.

But I think what's drawn me back to this place is that I believe it's time to put thoughts into words again, and let the process of putting words to paper (or rather to text type) to work it's introspective magic into some of the things that I think God has been speaking to me.

Hong Kong is a very busy place. It's crazy how easily days can go by without having a solid time to stand still and think, to reflect.

There's a lot that I want to say here, and I think it'll have to be split into many blogs, but the one I wanted to start with today is this one idea that has been stuck in my mind for while now.

A couple months ago, I was listening to this sermon series by Erwin McManus called "Wide Awake" and there was one thing that he said that hasn't stopped tugging on my heart since. He asked such a simple question that has left such a profound searching inside of me which was this:

"Why are our best dreams ones while we are asleep? Shouldn't our best dreams be the ones when we are awake?"

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Just typing it out already makes me feel...whoa.

I want a life that is just drenched with meaning and kingdom purpose. I want a life of adventure with the Lord - exploring the depths of His love and goodness. I want to be courageous in making dreams reality. To see the kingdom up there, down here.

I want my life to be made of dreams while I'm wide awake.