IT STARTED LIKE SO MANY EVENINGS. Mom and Dad at home and Jimmy playing after dinner. Mom and Dad were absorbed with jobs and did not notice the time. It was a full moon and some of the light seeped through the windows. Then Mom glanced at the clock. “Jimmy, it’s time to go to bed. Go up now and I’ll come and settle you later.”

Unlike usual, Jimmy went straight upstairs to his room. An hour or so later his mother came up to check if all was well, and to her astonishment found that her son was staring quietly out of his window at the moonlit scenery. “What are you doing, Jimmy?” “I’m looking at the moon, Mommy.” “Well, it’s time to go to bed now.” As one reluctant boy settled down, he said, “Mommy, you know one day I’m going to walk on the moon.”

Who could have known that the boy in whom the dream was planted that night would survive a near fatal motorbike crash which broke almost every bone in his body, and would bring to fruition this dream 32 years later when James Irwin stepped on the moon’s surface, just one of the 12 representatives of the human race to have done so.

So, what do you dream about? You haven’t given up dreaming have you? If so, they may as well pronounce you dead! Dreams, goals, aspirations are what keep us alive.

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about my dreams. I have seen some come to pass and others yet to be. The writing of a book was my latest, but I still have a few more waiting to be realized. It keeps me alive, motivated. George Bernard Shaw said it well: “You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'”

I believe you can tell a great deal about a person if you know what they dream about. Quite often that is where they will concentrate their resources, energy, and time. To achieve anything worthwhile requires vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember, all things are possible for those who believe.