Sometimes dreams are shattered. It is a painful realization, but a true one.

Anyone who has stared at a dream that was shattered knows exactly what I am talking about.

Sometimes dreams turn to dust right before our very eyes, which leaves behind not just broken dreams but also broken hearts.

Events, objects  and people can trigger painful memories.  For some looking at old pictures, trophies, newspaper clippings and photographs leave an empty aching in the heart and soul of a person.  A deep longing for a life that once was.

I must be honest, dear friends,  I experienced that very ache in my heart just yesterday as I held a picture in my hand, one that seemed a lifetime ago.  We appeared to be the same in the picture, but yet we were so different. We had changed, the people in the photograph had changed and some were even gone.  Life was different.  The dream was different.

But dear friends, I am sure that God is in the midst of our deepest  sadness, sorrow, regrets and most of all our broken and shattered dreams.  For your past that seems lost and your uncertain future which lies ahead, God is still in the picture.
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I love the movie Hugo.  It  is a wonderful movie of restored dreams, at least that is how I see it.  Winters and I don’t necessarily agree on that one.  He sees it and it makes him sad, as it does the Middle SON of Thunder. But for the Eldest and the Youngest SONs, we see more the hope of a future restored!  There are indeed sad moments, but for me I see the reality that life can be good again.  Although it is different, it can still be good maybe even great, maybe even better!  That is what keeps hope in the heart alive and without hope we will surely die.  We may not physically die, but something deep in our hearts does.

The best line in the whole movie to me was this: “George, you have spent so many years trying to forget the past and it has brought you nothing but unhappiness.  Maybe it is time you try to remember and believe once again in happy endings.”

It may hurt to remember the past, but it is our past, our history, our story that leads to the future. And that just may be better than our past ever was if we can just give ourselves a chance to dream again!

We can never recapture the past but we can rebuild the future!

Be blessed and encouraged abundantly today as we believe in a future that can be.