I finally read this book after almost 9 months of keeping it in my bookshelf! Oops...LOL. Thank God for that someone who persistently nudged and reminded me to read read read! Of course it was the owner of this book who did that. Anyway, this is sort of a book report? Can't remember how in the world to write one. =S
This book talks about being a dream releaser (i.e mentor alike) to the people who are under our care, as well as in my opinion, to everyone else in our lives. Each of us have inborn and innate dreams, waiting to be unleashed. Besides words, our actions - how we live our lives, and our prayers make huge differences when we see people more than what they are in the present. Prayers are a prerequisite and is the best expression of our love to releasing the potential of a person. "Jesus picked up a basin instead of a grudge and refused to use Judas's weakness as fodder for retaliation." (Cordeiro, W.)
As a mortal, I find that difficult to do, but it is not an excuse not to try at all. I guess the best part about being a dream releaser is that I can experience the satisfaction of being one of the channels to unleashing a person's deepest potential, which could change his/her life forever. The 'real' thing is peppered with much challenge, and faithful walking with the Master Dream Releaser Himself.
A Dream Releaser must be trusted because the ability to be trusted determines the "breadth of your mantle and the strength of your legacy." (Cordeiro, W.) I find this statement so true, for if I cannot trust someone, then whatever that person says will be like wind to me, blown from one side reaching another end without impact. A Chinese saying goes something like 'treat it like a passing wind'. In fact, trust is the most important factor for us to count a person's statement viable or otherwise, right?
The timing was just right when I read this book. If I have read this earlier, I guess the impact would have been lesser because I would have only been inspired, but not convicted. I am still inspired reading it this time around, and am doing something about it too because I have seen for myself the power of seeing someone beyond what and where they are now, and the change of attitude that comes with it when they know someone is behind their back.
I thought hard about the Dream Releasers in my life, and want to thank God for each of them, because of the positive encouragements I received, the gentle correction that I got when I screwed up and their believing in me when others walked away from me. I guess it's time to personally thank them for investing into my life. And these people are still behind my back, I do owe it to them. =)
same yet different,
gracey
