Let me dream
Give my mind permission
To tell the stories
Held within for these many years.
Dear
God
Let
me dreamPrompt me to see in pictures
The many tales
Tucked deep inside unspeakable.
Dear
God
Let
me dreamPerturb me to hear the sounds
That of too many words
Silent within my soul.
Dear
God
Let
me dreamEncourage my soul to face
The dark the damp the demons
From which I run.
Dear
God
Let
me dreamWalk into those stories
The way you walked
Alongside Moses and Aaron.
Dear
God
Let
me dreamFor I am a man of unclean lips
A faltering tongue
Buoy my spirit and tell the tales.
Dear
God
Let
me dreamPiece together the fragments
Lost and gone hopes and anticipations
Encourage my heart to live with outstretched arms.
Dear
God
Let
me dreamAnd recall the hopes and expectations
Of better days and more hopeful times
Teach me to say hello to dreams fulfilled.
Dear
God
Let
me dreamAllow my imagination to take wings
To see brighter days and more hopeful futures
For all of your children, all of Your children.
Dear
God
Let
me dreamAllow me to see what you see
When hurts are healed and hearts comforted
Equality equity generosity near and far.
Dear
God
Let
me dreamGive me holy permission to relish
Hopes realized and wishes fulfilled
Justice and mercy arrived and welcomed.
Dear
God
Let
me dreamAnd replenish and restore this frail human being
Until night turns into morning
When sorrow turns into laughter.
Dear
God
Let
me dreamBring upon us love and mercy
Grace and peace at every turn
When we all see all of us the way you see us.
Dear God
Let me dream
Beautiful! These words stirred my soul! I used to be a person of dreams and vision. I have given up on my dreams because of discouragement and have felt aimless for quite a while. A bit numb on the inside. Waiting and learning, failing, waiting and learning some more and failing again. I will use these words of yours to be a prayer to give me courage to dare to dream again. I long to be able to travel to places like Iraq and Syria and other places where people are suffering, to love these people and help bring them aid. To listen to them and know them and build lasting relationships with them. I long to use my photography to share their stories, to move people to do something to help, to create something beautiful for those who have suffered so much. Thank you so much for this! My soul needed it!
ReplyDeleteThe lines that I loved the most:
"Dear God
Let me dream
Walk into those stories
The way you walked
Alongside Moses and Aaron."
Just powerful!!