Life without a dream is like a hamburger without onions— it just doesn’t stick with you. Pastor Butcher and I had been away for the afternoon, planning and evaluating different programs and possibilities for the church. I think I got pretty esoteric and he pulled me up short with this insight: “Now, Pastor Derric, if you want your dreams to come true, the first thing you will have to do is wake up.” We were watching men spread concrete as they poured it into the foundation for the new educational
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