DREAM ON

Snippet

This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be.” ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Scripture

He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. Genesis 28:12

Song

Dream on by Aerosmith

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54BCLYNkFKg

Every time that I look in the mirror

All these lines on my face getting clearer

The past is gone

It went by like dusk to dawn

Isn't that the way

Everybody's got their dues in life to pay

Yeah, I know nobody knows

Where it comes and where it goes

I know it's everybody's sin

You got to lose to know how to win

Half my life's in books' written pages

Live and learn from fools and from sages

You know it's true

All the things you do, come back to you

Sing with me, sing for the year

Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear

Sing with me, if it's just for today

Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away

Sing with me, sing it for the year

Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear

Sing with me, if it's just for today

Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away

Dream on, dream on, dream on,

Dream until your dream come true

Dream on, dream on, dream on,

And dream until your dream come true

Dream on [7x]

Sing with me, sing it for the year

Sing for the laughter and sing it for the tear

Sing with me, if it's just for today

Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away

Sing with me, sing it for the year

Sing for the laughter and sing it for the tear

Sing with me, if it's just for today

Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away

Sentence Prayer

Lord, give us the imagination to dream and catch glimpses of the life you intend for us to live.  Show us how our individual lives are entwined with those around us, and help us to live so truly together that we embody your good news in this world.  Amen 

(Common Prayer a Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals 2010 Zondervan pg 430)