Sacred Dreams

I had supper with Erin and Angel Raper last night and we talked about their dreams for about 3 hours. They are a great couple who love God and love people and want to put the two together!

Dreams are sacred. You can't share them with everybody. It is like showing someone your new baby and have people respond, "Ughh!" People are likely to say, "You're dreaming!" or "That will never work!" You have to be careful with dreams and even more careful with dreamers. They are too easy to crush.

But dreams are dreams because they are hard to realize into reality. And many times, it becomes obvious that there are some major obstacles to making the dream a reality. And so we begin to shove our round dream into a square hole. So we gently have to talk with the dreamers about where their dreams might fit. We need to join them in a conversation with God about where He is leading the dreamers.

This always makes dreamers nervous. They are afraid of losing their dreams, and probably rightly so. Dreams are fragile and easily broken.

But Erin and Angel are trying to find that round hole where their dream can slip right in and become a working, productive part of God's Kingdom. That is so cool. My heart always goes out to dreamers.