Happy Second Day of Advent, Dear Friends,
I once ran across a simple poem that speaks to me and I hope it can speak to each of you even though it was written over fifty years ago by William Carruth:
“We are all of us dreamers of dreams, on visions our childhood is fed; and the heart of the child is undaunted it seems, by the ghosts of dreams that are dead. From childhood to youth’s but a span, and the years of our life are soon sped; but the youth is no longer a youth but a man, when the last of one’s dreams is dead. He may live on, by compact or plan, when the fine bloom of living is shed, but God pity the little that’s left of man when the last of one’s dreams is dead.”
I believe that dreams are essential to meaningful life. No matter what heights we have scaled there are still more peaks to climb. May we never rest on achieved victories, no matter how great these victories may be. We were made for higher things.
It is the dreamer who brings about changes in our world and who finds the real satisfaction of living. Dreamers have explored the earth and have charted the heavens; they have been responsible for our great inventions. It is the dreamer who leaves the world a better place.
The verdict of human experience is clear: never stop dreaming. We may never achieve all our dreams, but those who keep on establishing goals and working toward them are likely to achieve far more than those who have no dreams at all.
Never stop dreaming,
Bruce Jones, Pastor
Imagine Church
