<28> Dream Big in Your 50s?

3/7/25

In high school, James 4:13-16 (boasting about tomorrow) was a cherished Bible passage for me.

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James 4:13-16 (NIV)

¹³ Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” ¹⁴ Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. ¹⁵ Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” ¹⁶ As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.

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The passage conveniently helped me justify my earlier life (which isn’t much to speak of as a high schooler but) as I always struggled to say anything audible when adults had asked me, “So what do you want to be when you grow up?” But come to think of it, maybe I was that kind of DNA – not a dreamer for the future but a doer for today’s best. Even after starting the working life after college, I never really had a particular goal (like I want to become x title or y $ worth) but simply do-your-best-today, sleep-wake-up, and repeat. 25 years passed on that model and here we are. 😊 So when I tell people that “I’ve been living through & through with God’s grace and mercy”, I really mean it with experiences rather than just saying as a religious person.

Recently, I entered the half-century club (a.k.a. the 50s) and in the past six months or so, I’ve been thinking about this notion of “dream” a lot during my prayer & reflection hours. I don’t know but it keeps coming into mind (so I wonder if this is God replying me back during those hours). It’s actually a bit unsettling at the same time because I have been basically running my life on James 4:13-16 so I don’t know if I can change myself at such a later point in life! But surely, I’ve ‘dreaming” – what I could do here, there, what this I have could become, etc., etc. Unsettling as I have never really dreamed but I suppose this, too, is God’s grace and mercy.

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Dream big in your 50s???

Dream big in your 50s!!!