NEVER STOP DREAMING by Robert Soto

NEVER STOP DREAMING by Robert Soto

February 21, 2010

Philippians 3:13 "Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead..."

I felt kind of guilty, as I looked into her belongings. I felt I was violating her privacy. But I was called by her sisters to come and take all of her Indian stuff and see where they could be used for good. We packed her beads and hair pipes. We packed a lot of material scraps and over a hundred spools of thread. We packed several of her Indian dresses and a couple of Indian shawls. We looked into her two suitcases and decided which would stay and which would go. We found a couple of boxes of feathers that I would use sometime in the future. We found unfinished projects and designs of future projects. We laughed at some of our memories and we cried as we looked through some of her stuff. She wanted me to have all these and to use it or distribute it as I saw fit.

But as I went through her stuff and saw all these unfinished projects and little bag after little bag of beads I was reminded so much of a person who kept on dreaming. A person who did not know what the future held but a person who kept on planning and dreaming until the day she fell asleep on earth and woke up in heaven. We never stop dreaming. We never stop hoping. We never stop looking to what the future brings. Paul said, "Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead..." No matter what the unknown future may bring we never stop planning and we never stop dreaming and we never stop hoping. As I looked through the boxes of my friend, I knew she was a dreamer, one who would keep planning and working until the day she was called home.

Robert Soto, Lipan Apache and pastor of:

McAllen Grace Brethren Church
The Native American New Life Center
Chief of Chiefs Christian Church