March 12: The Third Sunday in Lent: Dream a Dream
The poet and philosopher Langston Hughes once mused:
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
Dreams help us see past the current reality into an unknown, untamed, unfenced future. Dreams invite us to move out of ourselves, and look towards a hope-filled vision of what is to come. We are called to be dreamers with God. And yet, sometimes we as the church have stopped dreaming.
We have stopped looking at possibility and settled for safe. Jesus in his ministry invites, impels, implores us into God’s dream. In Jesus we see God’s dream become flesh and blood. In this season we are called to be dreamers.
We are called to repent, turn around, to examine the things of our lives that we no longer need and go off in a new direction towards God’s dream for our lives and for our world. We have let the world dash our dreaming. We have succumbed to the falsehood that dreams don’t matter.
Jesus is a reminder that God is the first dreamer and God invites us to join in the dreaming. Jesus called us to not just dream, but to do. Hold fast to dreams…
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