Living in a Pretend World

I've been thinking-

A person lives a huge part of their life in a pretend world. 

Really though. In a day itself, we daydream, let our imagination wonder, play the "what if" game, and avoid the reality more than anything. 

Lately, I have been learning a lot about limitations and how we love to put them on absolutely everything;

whether it is people, prayer, goals, situations, dreams, communication-- I don't know...anything.

We are always placing an end or maximum on things. ----Why??

When I was battling depression and an eating disorder, the way I described life was a perfect picture of a being lost. 

I remember writing multiple times in my journal that "reality is a prison."

If I was to accept my reality that meant getting better was hopeless, I would never be perfect, I would never be enough, and love was a packaged deal with heartbreak. 

Therefore, if I was to live in the world, in other words- except reality, than I would hate my life all the same. 

So what was the point? I began to ask myself that more and more. 

Reality is what eventually drove my desire to live away completely. 

You see, the limitations I had placed on myself, and on life, nearly ended my story with a tragedy. 

That is not OK. 

Everyone is either a prince or princess of God's

- therefore, everybody has a happy ending. 

Seeing the bigger picture now, I love how it all fits together.

Remembering the darkness of seeing reality as a prison, I realize how I was putting major limitations on reality itself. 

The world's reality is as far as I would let my mind wander. 

The world is what told me I would always have an "eating disordered mind."

The world is what told me I was not what perfect was.

The world is what broke my heart into pieces. 

Here is the ULTIMATE REALITY CHECK.

There is rest, comfort, healing, hope, truth, answers, joy, peace, forgiveness, wholeness, ETC, beyond the world's reality that we fail to look past a lot of times. 

God is our Greater Reality.

He, Himself.....the entire package is in HIM.

When we have God living inside our hearts, we begin living the ultimate fairy tale with the ultimate happy ending. 

Building a relationship with my Greater Reality has shown me how much more there is beyond what the world can give us.

The world told me many things, I chose to look past it and now look-

I overcame an eating disorder, depression, addiction, and so much more.

My mind has been renewed.

I see how perfect God has made me.

My heart is whole and treasured. 

#boom.
Exactly what the  world told me was impossible. 

Ever since the Garden of Eden, people have often felt they could and should know as much as God. That is what we do when we dream anyways. Therefore, a great amount of our pain throughout life is a result from dependence on our wisdom rather than on God's.

Consider His  hope and faithfulness in comparison to our dreams and outcomes -

In which are you going to trust??

Stop putting limitations on things. 

Let your mind wander. 

Think beyond what you can see.

Choose to live your happy ending. 

Like I have said before, 

Hope is the dream of a soul awake. 

Dreamers live in a pretend world- they have already chosen that it will only be a dream.

Let's be real, dreams only come true in fairy tales, we all know that- so don't just dream--hope!

Does the world even know what hope is?

Maybe they would if there were less dreamers.

Have hope that your Greater Reality can and WILL make all things possible.

And I promise you, better yet- HE already has promised you!- It will come true:)

Embrace the rainbow.

Be more than just a dreamer. 

Our Greater Reality is capable.