There is More Value in a Dream

Jake Frost hopes that his kids will value their dreams and dare to pursue them.

Once when my daughter was four years old, I was putting her to bed at night when she said: “I like to sleep a lot. I love my dreams.” 

I hope she holds on to that love of dreams as she grows! 

Dreams can guide us through distraction, motivate us to reach beyond what we think we’re capable of, and take us to places greater than we imagined. 

Many great things in the world began with a dream. 

Dreams Can Be Hard 

But dreams can also be hard, even scary.  

We know, instinctively, that any worthwhile dream will demand much of us — maybe more than we think we can give. 

Which might be why so many dreams remain untried, unpursued. 

By analogy, G. K. Chesterton’s famous observation comes to mind:

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. (What’s Wrong with the World)

And having a dream is no guarantee that the dream will be achieved. Of the dreams which do get pursued, not all come to fulfillment.  

But those risks inherent in a worthy dream are no reason to give up on dreams.  

The difficulty of pursuing a dream is no reason to leave a dream untried, it’s a reason to work.  

And though a dream might not work out, it also might — if it is attempted. If it’s not, the result is a 100% certainty. And if a dream is attempted, the pursuit itself yields benefits, even if things don’t turn out as we’d like.  

Dreams are Valuable 

I wrote a poem about the gift that dreams can be:  

There is More Value in a Dream  

By Jake Frost  

There is more value in a dream
Than what the world may deem 

Though it seem a trifling thing to sow,
Like a seed a dream may grow,  

Until at last into the sky,
There stands before the blinking eye,  

What before was but a gleam,
In the vision of a dream 

I hope my kids won’t be their own “no,” leaving dreams untried because they’re afraid they can’t do it. The great words of Aslan from Prince Caspian provide another analogy: 

To know what would have happened, child? ... No. Nobody is ever told that ... But anyone can find out what will happen ... what will happen? There is only one way of finding out. 

I hope my daughter holds onto the dreams she loves and gets to find out what will happen! 

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