Dream

Hey! You dreamers...

Wake up already...

Visions happen when you're awake. Dreams happen when you're asleep. It's funny that the scripture doesn't say without a dream people perish. It says without a vision. A dream comes about by a multitude of business. Obviously, we can't do that business in our sleep. So at some point we have to wake up and see the dream become a vision. When we make the vision plain, people will know how to run.

I have a song on this new CD coming out called "Dream". The paradox of one of the lines just got me. "Dream a big dream, won't you reach for the thing God has promised to you." Dream and reach? Hmmm... One implies receiving the instructions, the other implies using those instructions to build something. When they package things, they use the pretty picture on the box to give you the fortitude to struggle through the bag of pieces inside. "Someday", we say, "this will look like that picture." So that is why scripture says a dream comes about by a lot of hard work (paraphrase). If you're going to sit back and wait for it, bury your talents and wait for a reward, then maybe you'll get lucky. As for me, I have these five talents.... and a dream. Time to get to work.