While young Joseph was trying to fit a God-sized dream into his self-sized thinking, God was looking thirteen years into the future at a combination of polar ice caps, ocean currents, and air masses (was it the first phase of global warming?) that were going to create seven years of unprecedented good farming weather and a subsequent seven years of devastating famine in that part of the world.

Calculating that only in Egypt would there be the infrastructure to collect and store adequate resources to ensure the survival of Israel’s family (and the rest of the middle Eastern and North African population), God gave young Joseph a dream and sent him off to begin his education and training in Potiphar University, followed by some post-graduate study in the Doctoral Department of Dungeons.

God initiated a process that moved Joseph the Dreamer from the hills of Palestine to a place where he could develop management skills and character qualities adequate for a task of a magnitude that no one in Joseph’s nomadic shepherding family even had the mental capacity to imagine.

Here’s a good lesson to remember: A God-given, God-sized Dream can only be fulfilled by God.

Super-sizing,