the .d.r.e.a.m.s. in my heart

Sometimes I think we can become suffocated. People, even people that truly love us, tell us that: emotions are wrong; personality must be stifled; no dancing or singing loudly; you must establish your life by these sets of rules (even if they're man-made); you have to seize every opportunity you have even if you don't have any desire for it; your life should be full of things that keep you busybusybusy; resting or taking time for yourself is wrong; your life is all mapped out, don't screw it up by picking the wrong class/college/spouse; etc.
But that's not what God has for us. God created us each, individually and perfectly, to be in a relationship with Him and flourish as the people that He made us to be. He made us with our personality traits, He made us with the capacity to have emotions and express them (although they are not to control us); He gave us dreams and desires that our hidden in our hearts. He grants us freedom ; he doesn't hand us chains to be bogged down with. He loves us and cherishes us - Christ came to give us the abundant life and nothing less.
God has put dreams and desires into each and every one of our hearts. Maybe its to be a missionary, or an accountant, or a mom, or a salesman, or a dancer or even to move to this place or be a part of this activity, or whatever. He made us that way for a reason, for a purpose - to glorify Him with those dreams and desires and passions. In ALL that we do - to glorify Him! If God has allowed us these desires/passions/dreams, and if we continue to have them while we are in deep fellowship with Him and loving Him more and more, there is no reason at all not to pursue them.
It's such a freedom to know that we can't screw up God's plans, even in the midst of our desires/passions/dreams. God's will for us is simply this: that we become more like Christ. The little details (and even the seemingly big ones) aren't mapped out for us by God. He gives us complete freedom because no matter what we choose in life, this house or that one, this school or that one, He will work it out for our BEST, and our best is becoming like Christ.
If we are in a deep relationship with Him, our desires for ourself and for others will become His desires. "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart". It doesn't mean that we will get what we want, but that when we truly abide in Him our desires will conform to His.
Sometimes I think we get bogged down because our dreams and desires are to do this or that, but we're not sure if it's in "God's will"... But if we are loving Him more and more and there are opportunities for them to become real then why not?
God didn't send Christ so that we would be bogged down by expectations that people put on us, by rules that are made by "religious people"; He sent Christ so that we could live in freedom. So that we could lay our burdens down and dance on them. So that we could be free to dance and love and sing and be exactly who He created us to be before the foundations of the world. What a great God.