Dreaming with God: A Bold Call to Step Out and Follow God’s Lead by Sara Beth Marr Book Review

The world tells us that the way to make all our dreams come true is to set our own course and strive every day. But when it's all on us, we end up feeling exhausted, frustrated, and, disappointed when things don't turn out as we'd hoped. Have you ever wondered if there was a better way?

There is. God knows the desires of our hearts--he put them there. And he calls us to trust, to lean on him, and sometimes . . . to wait. Weaving together her unique perspective as a professional ballerina with profound truths drawn from Scripture and the life of faith, Sarah Beth Marr reminds us that we are not dreaming alone. If God has given us a dream, we can be sure that he will come alongside us as we work toward realizing it. Using her own story as a catalyst, Marr encourages women to surrender their plans to God, to stay in tempo with his Spirit, and to step into a deeper relationship with Christ. When they do, she says, they will be able to move confidently into the future, knowing that their dreams and God's desires are aligned in perfect harmony.

My Thoughts:

Dreaming with God is Sarah Beth Marr’s first book. She is an active blogger, MOP speaker, mom, wife, and women speaker. She can now add author to her list. As a professional ballet dancer for the last fifteen years she has a unique insight on dreaming with God. Don’t worry you don’t have to be a ballet dancer to appreciate this heartfelt book. 

I know zilch about ballet dancing and have only watched one performance in my life. She made the book interesting as she uses ballet to weaves you into following your dreams and emphasizes that you must put your trust in God first. Some beautiful points throughout like, securing your pointe shoe ribbon to be secure in Jesus. A beautiful expressive metaphoric way to explain being secure that HE has you and died on the cross for you. You can relate to her book as you use your own career to reflect upon the message in this book.

The author shares her own testimony and journey throughout as she talks about following God with her dreams and planning it for the future. I know lots of young folks who plan for their future and have big dreams of what their life is going to look like. Unfortunately they find disappointment in the career choice or lose their sight on the relationship that they needed to cultivate with God first. Not only is does she emphasis dreaming but having joy and I took away being satisfied with the journey. I can’t help but to think about all the children’s movies out there that talk about following your heart and dreams and make it look so glorious to young kids. They of course don’t have the most important aspect of Jesus being in the center of it and the priority. I kept thinking those thoughts throughout and watched a few of those movies with my daughter lately. This would be a wonderful book for a teenager before they go off to college, or start a career, or whatever waits them as they venture off on their own life journey. They leave with big dreams and wide eyes with lots of excitement. You see that they lose that spark as the reality seeps in for so many. The ones who truly center in on God are different even if those dreams and plans don’t go according to their plans.

Each chapter has a space for you to reflect, “Prayer, Scripture, and Reflection for Your Dreaming Heart” You can write in the book with the space provided or you can use a journal to write.

Overall a beautiful and heartfelt book that left me reflecting on my own life and looking back at all the dreams I had when I was younger. I could have done lots of things different and I sure could have put Jesus in the center of it a lot more. I hope to instill these concepts I took away to my teens that have completely different roads ahead of them. Even my son needs to be reminded of these things.

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