The Drawer, the Dream, and God’s Timing

• By candidasullivan
• April 25, 2025
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How often do we think about things we don’t want in our lives? If someone asked what we want to have in our lives, could we tell them? Or would we explain all of the things that we don’t like?

When we talk about the things we don’t want in our lives, we are giving our attention to those things. I have example after example of this in my life. When we focus on negative things, they tend to appear everywhere. The same is true, however, for positive experiences.

Before Zippy was published, I fell asleep every night imagining kids around me while I read my books to them. I didn’t know how Zippy would be published since I had shoved it in the back of my drawer and vowed never to try to get it published again. But my heart still clung to the hope that it would happen.

Everything changed when I stopped worrying about how it would all happen and just believed it would. My vision with the kids has happened hundreds of times, and every time, it still humbles me and reminds me that God can turn our dreams into reality.

God will give us what we desire. Therefore, we need to allow our hearts to desire things. We need to spend our time focused on what we want and allow our hearts to feel the joy of the blessing right now. Before we could be saved, we had to believe wholeheartedly that God would save us. The moment that we believed was the moment that He saved us—and gave us the greatest gift of all.

An abundance of blessings is available to us. We need to believe that God can and will bless us according to His will for our lives. So often, we put God in a box and limit His power in our lives with our unbelief. But we need to remember that God is unlimited and powerful.

Today, I want to focus on the power and goodness of my Lord. I want to choose His abundance for my life and feel grateful for it right now. Every day, we can find the good in our lives or the bad. It is up to us which one we seek.

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