Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, in our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

So this week is going to be sort of a mom emphasis, but listen, don't automatically turn me off if you're not a mom,

because I'm going to be talking

about issues that are universal to us all. And I believe in all of these we can pull out at least

one nugget to think through and pray about every day. At least that's my hope and prayer always

for this daily podcast. So it would be my great joy if someone who wasn't a mom said, you know, I'm not a mom,

but this podcast still spoke to me this week. So today I'm going to be talking about something we all

have, dreams and plans and goals, but especially dreams. Dreams for our life, dreams for our future,

and yes, moms, dreams for our kids, and what to do with

all these dreams we have inside. You ready?

I don't know about you, but I spent a lot of my childhood dreaming about things, and if I'm

honest, most of those dreams involved my

future and my kids and my life, what my husband might look like, what my kids would look like

for sure, I thought a lot about that, what I wanted my house to be and my career to be. I always

sort of wanted to do both to be home and raise a family and also do a fulfilling work, even though

I really had no clue how that would even be possible. And I'll tell you the truth, most of my

dreams didn't really come true. I don't know how that sounds to you or even how that makes you

feel, but it's honest. Some of my realities are pretty different than what I dreamed. For instance,

I dreamed of marrying a doctor, and that never happened. For a while, I dreamed of a real

white picket fence, and so far that's never come true. I dreamed of being an interior decorator

for a while, and at one point, point being a psychologist and another being a lawyer

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