What are you dreaming of? by Brendan Conboy

One of my favourite films is ‘Field of Dreams’ starring Kevin Costner as Ray Kinsella. Ray, an Iowa farmer hears a voice that tells him, “If you build it, he will come.”

He eventually does as the voice instructs and ploughs up his cornfield, turning it into a baseball field. He is compelled to be obedient to the voice, so that a dead baseball player, ‘Shoeless Joe Jackson’ has a chance to play again.  

Ray Kinsella is a fictional character but Joe, on the other hand, was a true legend of a player who was banned from the game, due to a game-fixing scandal. It is partly the combination of fact and fiction that makes this story work and almost believable. The other reason why this film was a box office smash was that we all naturally want to pursue our dreams.

Joel 28:2 says – ‘Your old men will dream and your young men will see visions.’ So, what do you dream of? What is your vision? What is stopping you from achieving your goals and writing that book?

Shoeless Joe Jackson was deceived and robbed of the game that he loved. Have you been robbed of your dreams? As many of you will know, someone once told me I could never be an author, and I believed them. They robbed me of my dream, but another voice, that still gentle voice encouraged me to write. I was obedient to God’s voice and His calling.

That first book led me to 16 in total to date and many more opportunities. One of the most exciting ventures has been to establish the Book Blest Christian Book Festival, held in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Now in its third year, we are building it again in faith that ‘HE’ will come. “If you build it, HE will come.”

Of course, we want authors to come, and they are, from all over the country; many of them are ACW members. Naturally, we want any visitors to come and hear the stories of faith in action, but most of all we are BLEST by the presence of God – HE does come.

The closing date for author applications is 14^th April and the main festival will now take place on the 6^th and 7^th September. Adrian Plass, the president of ACW will be our keynote speaker on Friday evening and the Saturday will see a host of authors take to the platform.

In addition to the main event, we are also planning an evening of storytelling and music with worship leader, Dave Bilbrough on 18^th May.

For author applications and tickets visit Book Blest HERE.

What are you dreaming about? I would love to know.

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”

Walt Disney

 

Brendan Conboy aka Half Man Half Poet is the author of 16 published books including two fascinating autobiographies, The Golden Thread and I'm Still VALUED.  In 1986, Brendan invited Jesus into his life and God blessed him with the gift of rhyming words.  He used that gift as a Christian Rap artist for 25 years and has written 6 poetry books including the entire Book of Psalms in Rhyme.  He has 3 published novels - Issues, Invasion of the Mimics and Legacy of the Mimics.  He is the creator of Book Blest Christian book festival.  Brendan is available for speaking events, poetry performances and workshops.  Visit Brendan's website HERE.