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How to continue living after a broken dream?

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Raquellezxx · 04/09/2020 09:53

Hello. I am a Christian in her 20's who desperately needs your help and spiritual guidance because from my family, only I am the believer and I absolutely have no other friends or close people who are believers, which makes it impossible for me to seek any similar help (and I started therapy because I couldn't bare the pain any longer).

Since I remember myself, I had a dream to live in the States and it wasn't the typical stupid American dream. I just always felt that I would be completely happy there - I loved almost everything there, especially the fact that I can share my faith properly. In my country, believers are not so many and they aren't Protestant - we go to church alone and etc. I had the chance to go there for Work and Travel and I loved it even more. However, lately, my only one dream to live there was completely shattered. No matter how much I tried all these years, there are so many reasons and personal obstacles in my life, making it completely impossible to realize. And I wanted to be legal, which is even more impossible since I can't achieve none of the things to be legal there.

I can't describe how difficult, devastating, and exhausting this is for me to the point that I stopped having meaning in life... Since I am a believer, it makes it even more harder as I keep asking God why did he let this happen when so many even non-believers successfully live my dream without even dreaming, working hard, and praying for it? It feels so unfair and painful since I've never made anything so bad or horrific in my life that would make God punish me or something like this. What is more - every time, when there was an opportunity for me and people around me to cheat or lie for something, I have ALWAYS chosen the right and truthful path, no matter what... and it makes me feel even more angrier, alone, and devastated..

I keep reading and listening that that God knows your true desires and when you work hard and pray for them, He will let them happen. And no matter how much I tried, my dream was shattered and made impossible. While I know many people that didn't even care about that and they successfully live my dream.... Why? It just doesn't make any sense to me... Also, I thought that maybe God has a better plan for me here in my country. However, nothing in my life is good here, not to mention to get better with all my endless problems.. My parents don't care about me, my friends are not there for me when I've always been there for them, despite all my hard work, I am treated badly in my work and it's an emotional abuse. And on the top of that - I am experiencing this hell all alone...

For me, every day is an emotional torture, trying to understand why did God allow my only dream to be shattered and as a result, to be extremely unhappy and devastated? Please, I really need your piece of wisdom and advice since it hurts so bad and I although, I started to go to therapy, I still have nobody to talk with on this Christian things.

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flapjackfairy · 04/09/2020 10:01

You are only in your 20s . God has ample time to fulfil that dream if it is truly the right path for you. I had a dream that seemed impossible and I tried to give it up over and over because it was too hurtful to keep trying and failing. Guess what ? that dream did come true ! Against all odds ! God made a way when it seemed hopeless. It took years . It was hard but I held fast to the inner knowledge that God had spoken to me and given me the dream and I just knew it was right !
I don't know if God has given you this dream ! All I can say is submit it to him. Don't try to earn God's favour by being a good person ! It doesn't work that way ( though of course we should try to do the right things as a Christian anyway but it is not buying us anything in return ).
Trust God to fulfil his purposes for your life and try to let it go and let him work. He knows what is best for you in the long run x

BF2748 · 05/09/2020 00:05

Don’t give up continue to pray for faith and hope. Let god show you the way, don’t feel you have to lead the way and try so hard to make this happen, your fulfilled life will happen in the divine way. Ask god to lead you to people who support and uplift you and who share the same belief as you. Be thankful that this is occurring even if you do t yet see it , when you feel yourself slip pray and thank god for pulling you through and giving you the strength needed. Know that you are made in Gods image and likeness, he won’t let you down. X

Namenic · 05/09/2020 00:32

Sometimes I guess it’s hard because we can’t see how our dreams would not be beneficial for others, not just ourselves.

All I can say is that I’ve found it helpful to take things back to basics and thank God for all the small things in life. Food, shelter, nature, job, people. Sometimes it is only when we look back that we realise how blessed we are - I spent months preparing for a job with a written test and selection process. I didn’t get it and was really disappointed. However, I found a different job in a completely different sector, that allowed me to work remotely during the pandemic and spend time with my relative abroad who was terminally ill. I was so grateful to be able to be with her and pray with her. I would never have been able to do this with the job I missed out on.

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