Innovative Dreams

Sometimes it is difficult to be a dreamer when you are ahead of your time.  Most of us look at our life and measure success by awards, honors, and money.  But a real dreamer looks at life as an opportunity for something else to pop into our heads that could innovate people and things.

When it comes to successes it is easy to name things and events in our lives, but what about our failures or “yet to be” successes.  We want to forget them but they are an opportunity to grow and learn and help others.

Here are a few of my non successes in ideas that have yet to pan out with some of them going back to teen years. (Notice how a Dreamer has a tough time with the “F” word)   Some ideas today are still in the developing stages so Dreamers will not see them for fear of immediate rejection.

            A hand hoe that adjusts to clips weeds on both sides of the plants in a row;  A parachute that gets air fast for when you jump off a barn roof;  A rotating shelf for aging foods and goods in a cellar;  A replacement material for formed steel that is as strong as steel (I still have samples of these);  A fire truck hose bed that which cantilevers to the ground so it is easy for firemen to re-lay their hose in the back of a truck after a fire;  A consumer Christmas banner and pens that say, “Our Family Celebrates Christmas Because of the Birth of Christ”  (I still have samples of that one);  Taking Wildlife programs and incorporating them into Christian Camp programs;  Professional in training other organizations to use wildlife for training real life issues; Daily devotions on video (Brighter Days did have limited success on TV Shopping Channels)  An Attic Storage and Retrieval System (Still striving with this one); Label identification systems (new and in process); a high intensity contemporary church in Monroe County; a local community park that includes a self esteem training for young girls, GED training, a community center for all ages to build pride and growth in  their lives; and a place that local people can be a part of community; plus two more patent pending ideas.  And that does not even count some way out programs and processes for our church.

The Goal is to never give up on your dreams.  As my lovely bride tells me, I am ahead of my time but I believe that everything is in the Lord’s timing.  Some may never come to reality but I want to encourage you to never stop thinking about the possibilities.  The Lord never stopped encouraging you to your possibilities in life so make sure you never dampen the ideas that come to your head.  Maybe it’s the Lord’s way of telling you to take a leap of faith.