Shattered Dreams

"A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you are fast asleep.
In dreams you will lose your heartaches...
Believe in your dreams and someday the rainbow will come smiling through.
No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing,
The dreams that you wished will come true."
- Walt Disney's Cinderella
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In "I'm not Wonder Woman but God Made Me Wonderful", Sheila Walsh writes about Joseph and his shattered dreams.
Shattered, that is, until they finally fell into place all in God's wonderful timing.
God's the master weaver. He makes no mistakes.

Joseph was given some very lofty dreams.
Imagine how he must have felt, his heart swelling at what God has given him.
Then, his brothers sold him into slavery.
Just when he was picking himself up in Potiphar's house, he was thrown into prison under false accusations.

We all know how the story ends*, but as I read Sheila Walsh, it stands out to me in a way it never did before.

We all have dreams, and they all probably were shattered at one point or another (if yours hasn't been, expect it to be some time in the future). Joseph's story convinces me that what God has decreed He will bring to pass, regardless of what it appears to look like at the start.
Sometimes, you don't see the silver lining right up to the split second before the happy ending. But if you have faith in a Sovereign God, believe in the occurrence of deliverance.

And to quote Cinderella, "No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wished will come true."

*(if you don't, check out Genesis 41 at http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=1&chapter=41&version=31)