I just began reading Wide Awake by Erwin McManus.  I’m not sure where to start commenting on this book.  I can say that it is hitting a nerve in my life that needs some attention.  I’m amazed at what I have read so far… amazed at how I need to be reading it.

A friend of mine told me several weeks ago that I didn’t need to delay any longer and to take the necessary risks to go after the dream I have for life.  This is the only way I’m going to reach the potential that is locked up inside of me.  He went on to tell me that there are those who are counting on me to take the necessary steps… especially my family. 

His words to me that day got my attention.  They have continued to encourage me.  As I have begun to read this book I keep hearing the conversation I had with my friend.  McManus states in Wide Awake

Living wide awake is about realizing that the world needs you to live up to your potential.  There are others whose lives and future depend on you stepping up and living big.  The better world you keep waiting for needs you to accept your life’s calling and responsibility, and then to create it.  The future needs you to dream God-sized dreams; these are the only kind God gets involved in.  And if the future needs anything, it is God working through people.  (Erwin McManus, The Awakening, 19).

Are you living God’s dream for your life?  What is keeping you from risking to launch out after your dream?  Who is waiting for you to step up and live big?  It may be your family or it could be someone you have never met.  Whoever it may be… they are waiting for both of us to live out our dreams.