A Dream

Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. day and so many schools in the area are enjoying a day off.
Martin Luther King, Jr was someone who took a stand against an injustice. He encouraged, he spoke, he sought for a better tomorrow. Whose thoughts don't automatically stray to his "I Have a Dream" speech when they hear his name?
I was thinking this morning about how our STATS group has a dream as well. We want to see teenagers educated about abstinence. We want them to know that they have another option when peer pressure happens and that is option is to say "no." We want them to see how their future has a positive effect when they take a stand to make a healthy choice.
We live in a society that is steeped in selfishness. We want what we want when we want it. Why should we wait? Why should I listen to someone else?
One of the most common answers to when we ask the interview question of "Why do you want to be in STATS?" has something to do with the fact that these kids have had to live through watching other people make bad choices, or making bad choices themselves and seeing the consequences of it. We hear about family members or friends that have struggled with alcoholism, are in jail due to drug use or dealing, have had to change their life plans due to teenage pregnancy or have died from lung cancer. We see the way these choices have effected the students who sit in front of us. But every wrong choice we hear about - no matter how different they are - has left the same effect on each student: they don't want to see others suffer the same consequences.
They are students that have their own dreams. Dreams for successful futures, high hopes for careers that they're passionate about, a life without bondage to drugs, sex, alcohol and tobacco.
And they are passionate about sharing that dream with others.
What is your dream?
How will you reach it?