Broken Dreams--Brighter Futures. Mary and Joseph surely had dreams of their own. Perhaps it was a fairy tale wedding followed by a picket fence around a country cottage. Who knows what their dreams were, but when the angel Gabriel brought his announcement, their dreams were broken. Broken dreams, however, were under God's plan, and He replaced their dreams with something much bigger than they could have ever dreamed. This Christmas sermon will encourage you to sacrifice dreams to God's plan.