Running Down a Dream

Happy Day-Before-Christmas-Eve.

Otherwise known as: Good Golly, I've-Got-to-Get-It-Completely-Together Day!

If you've had your shopping and wrapping done since mid-December, I salute you. I am not in your camp, but I admire you with the very gusto I reserve for folks who know a whole lot about wine or who possess a family crest they utilize in home decor and can explain with ease.

There's a measure of mysticism and depth about you, Fabled and Prepared-For-Christmas-One, that I just love. Now, if you'll just loan me that fancy wrapping paper cutter I saw advertised, but wouldn't give in to…because my scissors still (sort-of) work…and I secretly believed (a couple of weeks ago, at least) that some slightly jagged paper ends give an 'authentic and folksy' feel to gifts.

Anywhooo - it occurred to me whilst wrapping gifts yesterday, that our lives are like this - we're buying, wrapping or unwrapping pages of this lovely life all the time. And that's a very good thing.

You and I are either figuring out what we want (trying different jobs, friendships, ways to worship, places to live), going after what we want (tucking lessons learned in our front pockets and pursuing what makes our hearts race), or enjoying and sharing the fruits of all this running about.

The entirety of this is very productive work in my book, and may be reflected upon with a nice glass of wine in your hand. Please just ask my more culturally advanced friends which vintage to buy, as I'm prone to simply snapping up bottles with the coolest-looking labels.

Most days, I favor the adventure of the unknown ending, yet am forever indebted to my friends with map skills. Together, we seem to fulfill that fabulous Tom Petty song, 'Running Down a Dream.'

I rolled on as the sky grew dark

I put the pedal down to make some time

There's something good waitin' down this road

I'm pickin' up whatever is mine

Yeah, runnin' down a dream

That never would come to me

Workin' on a mystery, goin' wherever it leads

I'm runnin' down a dream

What dream has your name on it in the new year, Dear Reader?

Write it down, wrap it up, put it under the tree, and don't forget to tag it as yours. This is no Hallmark card stuff. This is your life!

Love,

Melinda

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