I have some Big Dreams. You might call it a Wish List or a Bucket List, perhaps, but I call it Big Dreams because not all of them are within my control to make happen. Some of them are things that I pray about (perhaps not as earnestly as I ought), and several are things that I have had on my heart for many years. I have been thinking about some of them quite a bit recently, so I thought I would jot them down for posterity.

Without further ado, here is a sampling of some of my Big Dreams (in no particular order):

• To visit places that I saw as a small child but don’t remember: Italy, Germany, Spain, France, The Netherlands
• To see the night sky from the Southern Hemisphere (Lord willing, this summer when No. 1 and I plan to travel to Brazil!)
• To visit Scotland and Australia
• To witness (and hopefully participate in) the baptism of each of my children (2 down, 3 to go!)
• To manage my finances so that I can live on half of my income and give the rest to ministry
• To return to China and see the Great Wall (which I didn’t get to see the first time I was there)
• To be the first author of a published academic work
• For my research/academic work to be cited by others because it is relevant and informative
• For my spouse to challenge me spiritually (not in a Bible-drill sort of way, but in a How-can-we-grow-together-and-further-the-ministry sort of way)
• To publish a novel
• For my boys to become godly men and marry like-minded women

There are surely others mulling around my head, but those are the ones that come to mind off-hand. Do you have any Big Dreams?