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Been Talked Out of Your
Dreams?
By Rev. Kylie Renner
How many ways have you allowed the world or
yourself to talk you out of your dreams? I am
aware of how I use what’s going on in the world as
a gauge to determine whether my dreams are possible. The
nightly news can tell you everything is broken and nothing
can change, and so I can tell myself that my dreams about
what is possible can’t really happen. Or in these same news
items I can find a call to a deeper commitment to no longer let
the world of appearance determine what I know is possible.
Because I know that it is possible to find a way to live on this
planet remembering that we belong to one another, and I
refuse to be talked out of it.
If we aren’t paying attention, it is easy to get talked out
of our dreams. Because the world is filled with people who
will tell us, “why don’t you get real job, or a real dream, or
do something practical?” But, if you are paying attention, you
will notice that what these people are really saying is that you
can let yourself be talked out of your dreams. They are actually
saying, “why don’t you let me talk you out of your dreams?
You can borrow my excuse if you like. It will make me feel
better if you do.” In the
past I used to take my
dreams to people who I
knew would be negative
about them, because I
wanted to be talked out
of them. I wanted to
have some excuse, and I
wanted my excuse to be
validated by someone
outside myself. Because if someone I care for and respect
also believes in my limitation then it lets me off the hook. But
this is no longer acceptable. Someone else’s validation of my
excuse doesn’t make it true.
But it is not just the voices in the world that have these
reasons and excuses for why our dreams aren’t possible.
The voices in our heads are also filled with limited thinking
and excuses for why we are willing to talk ourselves out of
standing in the power and the truth of who we are. And these
excuses mean that we are makings accommodations for being
less than because we haven’t challenged ourselves to no longer
settle.
If in fact I have a dream I can actually get talked out of,
it must not have been my dream at all. Because even when
I allow myself push away my dreams with my excuses, if it
is really my dream, it will come back to me louder, fiercer
and more determined to get my attention. Our real dreams
won’t go away. Here is where we have to take our power back.
We must be willing to put the voices of the naysayers in their
rightful place, and no longer rely on our excuses.
We can’t actually get talked out of our dreams. We can get
talked out of paying attention to them momentarily, but there
is a space within us that isn’t willing to allow that to go on
for very long. And this space inside of ourselves is waiting
for us to get talked into believing in our dreams, and being
committed to them completely.
So since our dreams aren’t going to go away, even if we
ignore them, we might as well get all of our excuses out on the
table and have a good look at what we think is limiting us and
deal with them now. If we push it aside for a short period of
time, it is going to return, and were going to have to deal with
it, so we might as well take the next right step before us.
Rev. Kylie Renner is the Senior Minister at the Albuquerque
Center for Spiritual Living, located at 2801 Louisiana NE,
between Menaul & Candelaria. Call 505-881-4311 or visit
online: www.abqcsl.org
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