One Minute Devotion from Guidepost

My wife Sharon, and I were watching our first ballet, held onstage at our local high school.  The white-clad dancers graced their way through a rainbow of spotlights, leaving us spellbound.  At intermission, I sat listening to the adults around me rave about the performance.  The most common comment was "I wish I had taken ballet lessons."
Meanwhile, a number of children left their seats and wandered down front.  Inspired by the performance, they began spontaneously twirling, twisting, leaping, spinning - oblivious to the crowd that was watching in amusement.
I whispered to Sharon, "Children don't need lessons.  We adults are always dreaming and wishing.  Children just do it."
As I lay in bed that night, I thought about all the things I wish I had done in my life.  I wanted to learn to ice-skate.  I wanted to plant an orchard.  I wanted to make a movie.  I wanted to bind books.  I wanted to visit a South Sea island.
I couldn't get these children off my mind.  In the next few weeks, I decided to stop dreaming and so some things.
I planted a peach tree in the side yard.  I checked out a video on the South sea islands.  I borrowed a video camera and made a funny movie.  I bound a book, in my own crazy, unorthodox way.  Now, if I could just find some ice skates in size 13.
It's nice to have dreams, but perhaps some of our dreams are keeping us from doing the doable.