5-Day Devotional To Dreaming BigSample

I cofounded the Texas Christian University student organization TCU SPARK (Strong Players Are Reaching Kids) and began to speak across the United States to any corporation, university, prison, or gang that would be willing to hear my voice. Those experiences helped me realize what I wanted to do with my life. I wanted to help. I wanted one day to know how it feels to have changed the world. I wanted to put big dreams within reach of young people as well as anybody who seeks to better themselves and the world we live in...

I’ve been brutally hungry, so much so that it seemed like the pains in my stomach might never go away. I’ve been treated like a throwaway person, given no due by an inner-city educational system that is not only broken but punitive. I’ve known crushing poverty. I’ve had guns flashed at me as I walked home from school, and I’ve lost friends to senseless violence.

If all that has taught me anything, it’s that you can get by without food. You can be cold and hungry. You can survive poverty, and you can transition from victim of violence to victor over violence. It is only when you give up hope that will you be beaten and lost. A wise man once told me a well-known saying: “Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but not for one moment without hope.” In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” The greatest hope lies in dreams that seem too big to be realized. Audacious dreams that you have no right even thinking about...

There is no such thing as a dream too big. Yeah, you might fight to realize your biggest dreams and still fall short. But that, too, is part of growing and getting better. At the end of the day, in shooting for those big goals, those things that seem impossible and unattainable, your hard work and dedication will be put to their best use. No matter what happens, something great will come of everything you put into chasing those big dreams. As my story shows, you may find that on your way to a dream too big to come true, you are rewarded with something even bigger and better.