A Dream without a Plan
My head is spinning.
As I told you before this year is my dream year – the year I implement some of the ideas that have gone on in my head over the last several years. I will tell you what those things are, but, alas, that is not even the purpose of this post. Somewhere between Christmas and now, my beliefs about what God is going to do here at Fellowship have gone huge, and it’s going fast.
Fellowship Holden is building. (more on that on Sunday)
“The Splat” is coming.
Fellowship Worcester is not far behind.
And on top of all this, Fellowship will be pouring into Haiti in finances and people power.
Of course none of this has literally started yet. It’s all in planning stages, but God willing, very soon in this year Fellowship Church will never look the same. And this is why my head is spinning.
A mentor of mine says, “A dream without a plan is only a wish.” I never understood what he meant until recently. He told me that all of last year when I talked of my dreams, and I just plugged him as somewhat of a realist. He should get out and dream more, I would tell myself. Then after I found out I had been accepted into Ben Arment’s dream year, I made a plan to accomplish some of those dreams. Without having spoken a word or having written a recent email to Ben, I just made a plan. Certainly I could have done this beforehand, but something about this transition and 2010 and acceptance and people believing in me set me off, and a plan was made.
Then I sent my plan to my mentor, believing that he would think I was crazy and “settle me down”. I was wrong. He said this plan looked great and we may need to be fluid and changeable in regards to the plan, but it could be done. Then he reminded me of the words he had spoke so many times before, “Marty, a dream without a plan is only a wish.”
