Some Thoughts on Dreaming

If you aren't familiar with Mid-Morning, you might not know about our monthly Spots and Spotlights show. It's kind of a magazine-style show; we interview five guests throughout the hour and the topics are all over the place {in a good way}.

Because we only get 10-15 minutes with each guest, we aren't able to dive too terribly far beneath the surface. We try to capture the basic information about these people, so our listeners are informed! And every now and then, one of those guests surprises me by taking a little side trip that proves to be pivotal in ways I couldn't expect.

And that happened this week.

Lynne interviewed Cinnamon Bowser, a delightful entrepreneur whose business is called Nail Taxi. It's brilliant, really. A woman whose business takes manicures and pedicures into people's homes.

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I thought I was going to spend 10 or so minutes listening to her talk about nail polish and breaking through the red tape of starting a business.

What I didn't expect was her story of dreaming and waiting for the Lord to guide a dream to fruition. And it made such an impact on me, I wanted to share it with you.

Lynne asked Cinnamon {whose background is in PR and journalism} how she ended up starting a mobile manicure business. She told how she uncovered the unmet need for a salon to travel to the people, and dreamed up a nail taxi service. She said she wrote the dream down on a list of dreams she kept on paper. She had about a dozen dreams of business ideas, and every time she presented one to her husband, he didn't think it was right.

Until Nail Taxi. When she offered that idea, he said it was for her, and she began taking steps to see if it could come true. She took classes at a women's business center in her area, and she began to work slowly on the dream.

And then dear Cinnamon Bowser took a break from pitching her own company and took some of her 10 minutes to impart on our listeners the importance of dreaming and weighing the dreams to see which ones are worth pursuing. And at the end of the interview, when she shared how to find her online, she said anyone could contact her - not just if they were interested in starting a Nail Taxi, but also if they wanted to talk about their dreams.

She's a class act, that Cinnamon. I not only appreciated her willingness to take her own "spotlight" time to speak life into listeners, but I appreciated the reminder to dream. To dream without a filter...but then to apply the appropriate filters until the Lord leads.

My head swims with dreams. All. The. Time. You would just crack up if you knew some of the wild schemes that have made their way across my brain. I'm sure sometimes Ryan just rolls his eyes {thankfully INSIDE his mind} and thinks Here we go again!

But I don't regret a single dream. And I am looking forward to all the dreams to come. For every dozen or so that don't go anywhere...there might be one absolute GEM that comes to life.

Don't give up dreaming, my friends. Write them down. Let them marinate in your mind and heart. And if God leads you, chase that dream until it comes TRUE!!