No matter how painful… until you face the pain and the hurt, and the loss, and the disappointment, and the anger, and the frustration, and the resentment, you’ll never grow.

And the third one is you have to be willing to. And number three, we can grow from our shattered dreams. Number two, we need to understand our shattered dreams. Number one, we must face our shattered dreams. I’ve got three specific things that I think are critical, and regardless of the age… see, shattered dreams can be the greatest turning point in your life, but I’m going to suggest three things have to happen, and then I’ll develop them. And we usually don’t face it, we usually don’t know what to do with it, and we usually don’t grow from it.Īnd so we’re going to talk about how do you grow? How do you respond to the shattered dreams in your life?Īnd I want to encourage you. Some people experience deep shattered dreams and it is what catapults them into a level of growth, and impact, and health, and relationship with God and it came because they hit rock bottom, or they they’ve realized the ladder of their focus was against the wrong wall.Īnd other people, they have shattered dreams and it just is: status quo, just plowing through, you make up stuff like, “I don’t really care.” “It doesn’t really matter.” “I didn’t want to do that anyway.” Liar, liar, pants on fire.Īnd we just play all kind of games, because when you have pictures in your mind of how you think life would turn out, and it really doesn’t, it’s painful. And when you see what happens in shattered dreams what you find is that they’re like a pivot point.

That the people that you love the most, you do know, they can hurt you the most. And they can revolve around your career, your relationships they can revolve around the kind of pain and dysfunctions that grow out of them. Whether you’re a kid, or an adult, or in mid-life, everybody experiences shattered dreams.

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