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    The Washington Post recently carried the story of Norman D. Vaughan’s return trip to Antarctica. His fascination with the Antarctic dates back to when he was a young man of 22 years in 1927 when he spotted a newspaper story about Adm. Richard Byrd’s planned expedition to the South Pole. Vaughan, at the time a Harvard student, quit school and joined Byrd’s team. He had no invitation and had never met Byrd. All he had was a passion... and a dream.

“We have to dream big and dare to fall.”

    Not long before his 89th birthday, Vaughn returned to the icebound continent and became the first person in history to scale the 10,302-foot Antarctic mountain Byrd had discovered and named for him 65 years before. “You don’t hear much about people with a dream today,” he says. “It’s almost as if they’re afraid to discover what they’re individually capable of. But all of us have more inside of us than we believe possible. To bring it out, we have to dream big and dare to fall.”

    I believe that Vaughn is right. We don’t dream big anymore. We lack the courage to achieve. The early believers knew that within them was something big. Peter would declare that in the last days God would pour out his spirit on mankind and “your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.” (Acts 2:17).

    Where are those men and women of daring faith and courage today? Oh, how I long to be among God’s people who are visionaries and dreamers of the impossible, because they know the power that God has put within them!