What If Dreams Are All You Have?

I was watching an old movie, and one of the characters said, “You can’t live on your dreams. You have to let go of your dreams and come into the present. Live today. You can’t live on your dreams.” I find myself chuckling and thinking that’s another one of those things where you do an about face as you get older and come back to the starting point again, because after a while, dreams are all you really have to live on. Your dreams become more real than experiences around you, and those are the things that encourage you and keep you going, because you think dreams – at least the pleasant ones – are just pictures of the world to come, which I trust is a return to the garden, to paradise, to place without strife, disharmony, confusion -- all those things that make the journey here so difficult and tend to take away from the joy of the occasion. Dreams --especially as you near the end of the journey -- become more real because they are pictures of what’s coming, and the closer we get to that event, the clearer they become. Dreams are important parts of our journey, from the beginning until the end.