The counseling setting offers you a place to dream - who do you want to be, what do you want for your life, for your relationships, for your marriage. We cannot make changes in our life until we first dream it. We will not change until we have the desire to change. We cannot develop lasting change for anyone other than for ourselves. Dreaming can be difficult; it requires hope . Do we dare hope? There may be disappointment, we may fail, we may succeed.   From our dreams, we begin taking steps to make our dreams a reality. Our story informs us about our past, where we have come from; Dreaming allows us to have vision for the future.   Dreaming takes us beyond the present struggles and possible despair to allow us a window into what we want for the future. Dreaming is best done in community, opening ourselves to honest reflection and hearing others' desires for us.