HOLDING ON TO THE DREAM – Elvira Jordan

Good Morning Beloved!

There’s this common saying “Anywhere wey belle face, na im be front”. This may sound very funny but it’s actually the reality people live with every day.

A large percentage of people in Nigeria are consciously or unconsciously living this reality, as most people cannot afford to live their best lives and be their best selves because some economic and social factors are limiting them.

I am talking about a society where a student who has the dream of becoming a medical doctor will end of studying animal science. A computer science graduating may end up running a POS business. People can no longer walk in the shoes they desire, because life has already give them a ragged bathroom slippers, and they are forced to wear it because they cannot afford anything better. Do you get?

Life has a way of trying to determine who we are and what we become, because we are all trying to adjust our movements according to the shoes we wear ad the itch we feel. That is what the society does to us.

However, there are some of us who have seen a picture of what we want to be and what we want to do. There are people who have dreamt and have lived our desired lives in our heads. We have held on to this vision, so much that it almost feels like we can taste it.

This message may not resonate with everyone, but to all those who have a dream, a vision, a purpose or a target that we have nursed and are striving towards, I urge you all to hold that vision in your mind’s eye- your subconscious mind, and bever let it go.

No matter how the world tries to push you or sway you… no matter how much the society and life’s circumstances will shake you, make sure to hold on to that which you have seen, that which you most desire, and that which you wish to attain.

The more you hold on to the vision, the clearer it becomes. The clearer it becomes, the more strength you muster to bring it to reality.

Don’t let the noise of the world, hunger, procrastination and other distractions sway you from what you see and believe. Commit that vision to God every day in prayers. Say it out Loud until the Universe begins to sing it. Call it forth, as if you are beaconing to a crawling toddler to come to you.

Hold on to it and watch it gravitate towards you slowly, like a pin in a haystack, moving towards the energy of a magnet.

I can't say its easy, but living a purposeless life is much harder.

Hold on to that vision. Keep holding on to it. Don't let it go.

I hope this message gets to those who need it.

BIBLE VERSE: Habakuk 2:2-3 And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

PRAYER: Dear Lord, help us to hold on to our vision and our purpose. Help us to stand tall and hrive above all that seem to distract us from our chosen path. Give us victory and excellence in all we desire to achieve. Amen