Sea Dreaming

I highly recommend picking up Shauna Niequist’s book, ‘Bittersweet.’

I’m reading the chapter called “Sea Dreaming” and it helped me to understand more of why I love to travel and dream.

She writes about seeing the fullness of life…

“Sometimes we get so tangled up in our own perceptions of ourselves, what we think we’re good at and what we’re not, that we lose perspective, seeing only our failures and bad habits. I can give you a top ten list of why it’s hard to work with me or crazy-making to live with me, and especially in difficult seasons, it’s almost impossible to remember that feeling of being great at something, or the feeling of being proud of yourself.
…that’s why travel is so important, among other reasons: to get far enough away from our everyday lives to see those lives with new clairty. When you’re literally on the other side of the world, when you’re under the silent sea, watching a bright, silend world of fish and coral, when you’re staring up at a sky so bright and dense with stars it makes you gasp, it’s in those moments that you begin to see the fullness of your life, the possibility that still prevails, that always prevails.”

She continues to write, “I stop dreaming sometimes, because I’m afraid of what it would take to change my life. I stop dreaming beause I’m afraid of the chaos that a dream might bring, afraid of what a new dream will require of me….but that night, with my husband and my brother and my dear friend, I dreamed. And it could have been the beauty of the moon on the water, or it could have been the freshness of the sea air, but when I returned home, I felt new, and that the world was bright and new, and I heard God’s voice whispering to me everywhere I went. It could have been anything, but I think it was the dreaming.”

That folks, is why I love to travel. I’m a dreamer, and right now, I’m starting to get motivated to do something big.