7.24.23 - 1 Samuel 1:21-22
Can balance ever be achieved between personal dreams and the commitments we have towards others and/or our beliefs?
1 Samuel 1:21-22
When her husband Elkanah went up with all his family to offer the annual sacrifice to the Lord and to fulfill his vow, Hannah did not go. She said to her husband, “After the boy is weaned, I will take him and present him before the Lord, and he will live there always.”
People in my generation - I am a geriatric millennial - were told to follow our dreams and make them happen.
I was probably one of the few women in Mexico hearing “you can be the next United Nations Secretary General” from their dads. My friends heard similar things from their families. So we did. We followed our dreams.
But they never taught us that we had to choose at some point between our dreams and everyone else’s. I have steadily seen my friends giving up on their dreams for the sake of their partners, their parents, their children, God… And I wonder if Hannah was taught the same. I wonder if she gave up her life’s dream (her son) for the sake of her faith.
What’s the point of dreaming, then?
Can balance ever be achieved between personal dreams and the commitments we have towards others and/or our beliefs?
-- Claudia Aguilar Rubalcava