One Year to Go!

It is exactly one year until the start of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver/Whistler! It is exciting to have it come to our province. I don't think that we'll be able to go as I missed putting in to get some tickets. Now, the only option will probably be scalpers. Oh well, I guess it is nice and warm watching it at home -even better! (at least that is what I'm telling myself).

I went to a Chamber of Commerce event last night where Silken Laumann was the speaker. There was some mingling before with a great appy buffet from the chefs of the Kingfisher featuring bounty of the Comox Valley. Tender and tasty buffalo meat wraps, a grilled tuna that was a bit raw on the inside and sushi and vegetables. It was all amazingly good!

Oh - back to the story. The great thing of the Olympics is that they often provide us with pictures of accomplishment and inspiration.

Silken was a 1992 Olympia who had a severe injury that severed tendons, ligament, had 200 pieces of wood stuck in it (another boat hit her) and generally mashed her leg just 10 weeks before the Olympics. She went from being a gold medal favourite to being told that she'd never row again and would walk with a limp for the rest of her life. She did not accept that prognosis, but went to work and ended up competing in the Olympics and winning a bronze medal! An amazing story of courage, passion and determination.

She said a particular quote about the power of dreams, "What lies between you and your dream realized is the belief that somehow, some way you are going to get there." In other words, belief or faith is a huge factor in your success.

Now that is just the power of human belief which God placed within us. I was challenged when I thought that when you put that with the fact that, as Jesus followers, we have God Himself behind us we should be the biggest dreamers for positive change! The world (our lives, families and communities) can, and should be, a different place as we allow God to dream through us!

What are you dreaming for? Is it bigger than you?