Looking to my future, I see much change.  I see requirements increasingly different than those in my life today.  I also see increase itself.  Increase in responsibility–an oddly overused word in my life, so much that I don’t always know what it means anymore.  Increase in love, in generosity, in humility, in forgiveness, in selflessness.  The details of these are initially secondary to the fact that I see them.

This is why aim high now.  This is why I now seek increase.  Increase is preparation for increase.  Didn’t the Lord tell us that to whom much is given much will be expected?  This principle applies even now.  I have time to increase my spirit’s connection to God, my heart’s connection to others, and my own connection to my body and mind.  I have time to engage the strength of purpose already given me.  If I do this, if I am thorough with the actions of increase, I will see a stronger set of power in the future.

Cinderella sang that a dream is a wish your heart makes when you’re fast asleep.  In dreams you will loose your heartache, whatever you wish for you keep.  Have faith in your dreams and someday your rainbow will come shinning through.  No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true.  I sang the tune even today.  Yet, the truth is that there is more to realizing dreams than simply believing them.  Cinderella couldn’t have fallen in love with the Prince if she had never learned to dance.  Dreams come true in large part because we work toward them.  We position ourselves ready to catch the dreaming star passing our way.  We must be engaged in our dreams, not simply wishing our nights away.

And when the dream is coming true, it will be intense and big and beautiful.  It will come true in hours of great wakefulness.  It will be uncovered, discovered, dusted off, made new, altered, analyzed, and solidified.  All of this through joyful laughter, distressing tears, fear and trust.

Oh, how clearly I need preparation and an increase of power.  As I look to the future, there is more greatness and wonder to be known.  There is increase; let me thus increase my strengths now.