{"id":512,"date":"2013-05-21T22:42:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T03:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=512"},"modified":"2013-05-21T22:47:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T03:47:22","slug":"look-beyond-the-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"Look beyond the clouds&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelosteen.com\/Pages\/Home.aspx\">Joel Osteen<\/a> on Sunday morning. \u00a0I loved his reminder to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelosteen.com\/Pages\/ThisWeeksMessage.aspx\">keep your vision in front of you<\/a>\u00a0and dream big!<\/p>\n<p>While I was running yesterday I was thinking through some of my dreams and wondering if I had been limiting myself by not dreaming big enough. \u00a0I then prayed for a moment for God keep my heart open to the seeds of a big dream he would like to plant. \u00a0By the end of my run, I was thinking about someone who has been on my mind a lot in the last few months.<\/p>\n<p>Then for a moment I looked up, and instead of seeing an image in the clouds I saw an image in the blue sky which was formed by the surrounding clouds. \u00a0It looked like a finger pointing in the direction that I was running. \u00a0It reminded me\u00a0of the optical illusion pictures you have to stare at for a while in order to see the hidden\/other picture.<\/p>\n<p>It might not seem big, but maybe sending prayers and love through time and space to this person is a big dream. \u00a0Maybe I am going in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I can&#8217;t know for certain, but I am going to keep looking beyond the clouds and searching the blue sky above for the slightly hidden, bigger picture!<\/p>\n<p>It is Our Best Life!<\/p>\n<p>DREAM it, say it, live it, believe it, and it will be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched Joel Osteen on Sunday morning. \u00a0I loved his reminder to\u00a0keep your vision in front of you\u00a0and dream big! 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