True Life: Pipe Dreams

Pipe dreams.

That is what people call your dream when it is impossible, or seemingly so to them. You want to be an actor. You want to be an artist, or an author, or a trapeze artist. But people will tell you, "No, no, you can't do that!" You have to be practical. Become a doctor or a lawyer, or a business man. You have to be practical, they say.

But what about when you are standing in front of a beautiful painting, and it makes you feel a certain way.... you know, like you can do anything...... like anything is possible. Like there is still something good and beauitful and meaningful in the world. It isn't all just bland and boring and mundane.

Or what about when you hear a beautiful or touching piece of music, and it changes your life? Literally stops you in your tracks, because the words speak directly to your heart, or your situation at the moment? Isn't it true that someone painted that piece, someone wrote that music? If being creative is always just a "pipe dream", and we don't really need the arts, then why do we crave it so much? Why does it touch us so? Could it be, perhaps, because we were made by a creative God, a Creator God who Himself loves to make things, loves variety and imagination?

Don't let your "pipe dream" die. If you are passionate about something, why supress it? Could it be that the very reason you were made was to be just who you are? That you shouldn't supress the passions and dreams inside you?

Can you tell I was really inspired this weekend by going to the LA County Mueseum of Art?? Haha.

I'm going to go paint.