Friday 5: Hopes, Visions and Dreams edition

Sally from the RGBPs posts this for our F5 this week:

My house has been full of young people all week, young people who have just left school, young people with an eye on the future. Their laughter energy, and hope are infectious, so with that in mind- this Friday 5 is about hopes, visions and dreams;

1. Think back to the time you left High School, what were your hopes visions and dreams for your life/ for the world?

It had been very strongly suggested to me that, since I had the math skills, I go to engineering school so I could make a lot of money and be very well off. Nevermind that I was gifted in music and drama and English lit... those things didn't pay.

TS Eliot said that one is never truly educated until she has mastered a subject she has no real interest in whatsoever --that's me and math!

Fortunately, God intervened ...

2. Have those hopes visions and dreams changed a lot, or are some of them still alive and kicking? (share one if you can)

When I graduated from high school in 1981, I was an Agnostic. If you had told me then that I was going to become a pastor or preacher, I would have laughed raucously in your face and asked you what your drug of choice du jour had been ...

3. Hebrews 11:1 " Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. " Comforting, challenging or frustrating?

Mostly comforting. Believing IS seeing ...

4. If resources were unlimited, and you had free reign to pursue a vision what would it be?

I would go back to graduate school and pursue ALL four of the additional degrees I'm trying to choose ONE among currently.

5. Finally with summer upon us- and not to make this too heavy- share your dream holiday....where, when and who with...

DH shared with me that, once she has her social worker's credentialing squared away, she love to go to the UK and spend a month there. I would too, actually.