Unlimited Wishes and Loss

“Ask and keep on asking and it will be given to you; seek and keep on seeking and you will find; knock and keep on knocking and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7 AMP

New Seasons, New Wishes

New seasons can be hard. Those seasons are further complicated if you are still catching your breath from the previous season’s broken dreams. How do you embrace new beginnings when you’re still grieving the previous season of losses?

Many I talk to are experiencing some tough things with costly losses attached to them, myself included. Most of those are permanent losses. We can’t turn back time. If you’ve lost something and are struggling to accept irreversible loss, you have an idea of its weight and impact. You understand how impossible it seems to move on from it.

I have been wrestling with this issue before God, wanting relief so badly. That is when He reminded me of this Scripture about asking. I felt His kindness pointing me to an option I had not seen before. When things and experiences are robbed from you with no say on your part, it seems impossible to recognize options. But I sensed God stirring my heart to realize that instead of holding on to these dead or stolen dreams. I had the option of planting them like a seed that falls into the ground. It made so much sense. The dreams were dead regardless – whether I held on to the loss of them or released them to the ground.

Counting the Loss

I began naming each loss, an imaginary seed representing it, and pictured putting each one into the ground on my internal movie screen, asking God to produce a hundred-fold harvest for everything that had died.

Something powerful happened as I did that. I started wondering about what that harvest would look like. Without even recognizing it at first, I began feeling the momentum and found myself dreaming about all the things I would want to ask to be part of that hundred-fold multiplication.

Setting Goals for New Seasons

Setting goals for entering new seasons are not a command, but Jesus commands us to ask. In response to that I am starting this next leg of my journey out with more confident boldness in his promise. Instead of setting goals I don’t have energy for due to the grief, I am creating a dream or wish list for God, covering every conceivable part of my life. A hundred dreams or wishes for each loss, if I can! I just allow my heart to dream. Since I am commanded by God to keep on asking, and it’s not just three wishes, then I want to get better at asking. I invite you to join me and ask God to awaken new dreams in you.

Let’s Pray

My wonderful God, who can do abundantly more than we can imagine, thank you for Your power that creates more than we can ever dream up! Please bless us to dream with you and according to your will and power. Amen.

Bio

Cendrine is a trauma-informed life consultant, holistic health and spiritual mentor, grief coach, and nutrition expert. With formal training and decades of personal experience overcoming and walking out what she teaches, she’s passionate about guiding others on their journey to holistic well-being. She loves writing and often shares her insights on her blog, teaching about her areas of expertise. She’s an avid reader and lifelong learner who loves recharging in nature, going on hikes, enjoying one-on-one connections and hanging out with her two adorable cats. 

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