G.M. Sunshine Devotionals

A definition and a description are two different things that often go hand in hand. We usually give meaning to what we define and give details to what we describe. Our thoughts govern our definition to give meaning to the why that validates our perspective. Our senses govern our description to give details to the who and what that validate our perception. But our spirit governs both our thoughts and our senses creating the junction between our dreams and experiences that brings into fruition the meanings and details, the perspectives and perceptions, and the whens and wheres that substantiate who we are, our nature, and the reality of our lives.

One of the beauties of creation is that life is able to multiply after itself, to create not just one but many, with the same general objective in life, which is to be fed, to grow, and to come into a fullness of maturity and fertility to produce and cycle that life again. That beauty is birthed out of connection, derived from an innate desire to pair and be paired for the reasons of creating something beautiful together. With such multiplication, we don’t just create life, but we also bring to life dreams that are often the catalyst for a wide range of our experiences.

Dreams are a major part of the beauty of creation. And it is birthed out of a connection. It comes alive with the interactions between spirit and life and speaks to our who, what, where, when, and why. Merging the desires of the Lord into the mind of our hearts, resignating with our subconscious and conscious thoughts, and engaged by our senses, dreams seek to be paired with the manifestation of our destiny with others.

Many people have shared dreams while connected to different kinds of relationships. And, the expectation for those spoken words or thoughts to dissipate from those whom we’ve once connected or shared it with, and it not have some aspect of manifestation, is highly unlikely. It is unrealistic to think that people whom you’ve once shared dreams, hopes, and aspirations with in the past won’t continue to build on those dreams if they have the hope, zeal, resources, and opportunity to do so.

Shared dreams include dreams that derive from one’s own thoughts or wishes, which at some point became intertwined with others’ input, emotions, suggestions, beliefs, or simply their extensive invested time spent on such discussions, visualizations, or imagined visions of future hopes and fruitions.

The thing about the mind is that our mindset is most often influenced and developed before we can realize the effects of what our senses have been exposed, attracted, or bound to. Dreams tend to often act like the offset to our mindset, in that it hides the beauty of possibilities beneath the surface of our current reality. It often decreases the attraction of wishful thinking with the terms of rationality due to the risk of appearing like an unattainable fantasy. But at the same time, dreams also appear to loose the idea that we are bound to our who’s, what’s, when’s, where’s, and why’s.

At the end of the day, dreams transend beyond what we assume to be a realistic inevitable outcome, into a hope filled essence that intersects our intentionally disciplined instinctive nature with a persistent inner drive (despite our current circumstances); This produces the virtuous quality of our destined character. That faith, according to Roman’s 5:3-5, is the matured process of the actionable substance of hope that puts away shame and fills our hearts with a divine love. That love, through relationship, opens storehouses of promises and expresses the perfect will of God.

Be blessed,

G.M.