The Impossible Dream

Let me sing you a song.

“To dream the impossible dream

To fight the unbeatable foe

To bear with unbearable sorrow

To run where the brave dare not go

“To right the unrightable wrong

To love pure and chaste from afar

To try when your arms are too weary

To reach the unreachable star”

The Impossible Becomes Possible

What is your unreachable star? 

  What mountain are you attempting to climb that looks impossible? 

    What goal is still in sight yet still out of reach? 

      Are you a conqueror? 

        Do you have an Impossible Dream? 

If you do, then you are in the company of some possibility dreamers, you know. 

Roger Bannister dreamed of nothing but running.  He was the first man alive to run a less-than four minute mile, and his 3.59.4 minute mile became a possibility in 1952.

John Kennedy dreamed that Americans would one day explore the moon and beyond.

At age 70 Harlan Sanders had just started frying chicken.

Erin saw in her students what no one else saw.  In a tough inner city school Erin Gruwell (Freedom Writers) changed attitudes of hate and despair and prejudice into acceptance and growth and possibilities.  She was a possibility dreamer who gave feet and wings to her dreams, and the dreams of her students, and they worked together as these dreams became possible.

I have a quote hanging on my office wall and it reads:  “Only those who can see the invisible can accomplish the impossible.”

So what is your impossible dream?  What beats inside of you that continually stirs your secret longings and wishes?  Do you sometimes feel that you will explode unless you accomplish this impossible dream?

To run where the brave dare not go

I met a high school student recently and she is going on a YWAM summer mission’s trip?  She sees possibilities for impacting lives for the greater good and she is running to that dream.

To try when your arms are too weary

Are your arms weary of trying and trying again?  Try one more time, and then try again.  Winston Churchill said “Never, never, never give up.”

No matter how hopeless, no matter how far

I am hugely impressed with Lance Armstrong’s grand success at winning seven consecutive Tour de France bicycle races.  He never looked back when his diagnosis of testicular cancer came knocking.  He got treatment, got over the cancer and pedaled his way into the history books and became a symbol of a conqueror and a possibility dreamer for all of us.

To be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause

Can you say

    I fought giants and won.

        I conquered dragons.

            I climbed enormous mountains.

            I helped people along the way

        I overcame debt.

    I graduated from the University

     after my kids were grown.

I learned how to do _____.

I read.

I studied.

I won!

I rose above it all, no matter how high, no matter how deep, no matter how far!

And the world will be better for this,

That one man scorned and covered with scars

Still strove, with his last ounce of courage,

To reach the unreachable star.

Go, dream your dreams

Give them feet and wings

And live your life without regret!

(The lyrics for The Impossible Dream are written by Joe Darion and from the musical Man of LaMancha)