Imagine until the voices of doubt are forever silenced

​esterday, my friend Jess Reilly shared these words in a Facebook post. Jess and her partner Mark have dreamed of owning a vegan bakery. Recently they've spent their days watching the frame of the building for their bakery come alive a bit more every day.

They are watching their dream come true.

Her words lifted me. They reminded me that faith is a window. We stand in the circumstances of our life looking through that window at dreams - at goals - at a person we long to become.

But some days that window can feel far more like a heavy brick wall than a window. Those days make it impossible to see dreams evolve into reality.

Those days, though - those walls - they are us. They are me of little faith. They are years of defeat that leave us anticipating walls in our lives instead of standing us confidently in front of the windows of faith and belief.

Some days we need to move beyond the voices that doubted us - the voices of self and others - and just stand in front of that window and dream. Stand there and defiantly dare a wall to stop us from imagining.

Imagining until it happens, until faith becomes reality. Until the voices of doubt are forever silenced.

My teenage friend Colby has been standing at the window for a couple of years now - looking out at his first marathon. Lately he's felt the walls - heard the voices. (Don't tell him, but I've heard and felt them too).

But today, buddy, today we silence them. Today we stand together at that window and cheer for faith. A standing ovation. And we'll walk away from that window a little more determined to never see a wall again.

And we'll have marathon medals on our necks just in case the wall wants to try to convince us otherwise.

Let's get it done....