From a Dream

If you were to call someone a dreamer would that be an insult or a compliment. Sadly, I believe it might most often imply a negative connotation. While I fully understand such reasoning, I believe we also need to be open minded about dreamers. So many of us live entirely in the here and now, the metaphysical world of what is. Yet, there are the rare individuals who dare to imagine beyond the “what is” and dream of what could be. They think outside the box. Where would a west coast dweller like me be without Columbus or Lewis & Clark? They were dreamers who dared to look beyond the edge of the map. Where would we be without telephones, television, computers and so on? We are surrounded by technologies which came about through dreamers who were willing to think outside the proverbial box. The same is true with parents who consider the perfect possibility of a baby, even an embryo, and look forward to the person who might come to be as a result of their efforts. Even people of faith are dreamers of a sort since faith is, in the immortal words of the Apostle Paul, “The assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” It doesn’t mean you have cure polio or go to the moon or discover a new sub-species of kangaroo. No, we need more dreamers of all shapes and sizes, people who acknowledge the tangibles which surround us while daring to dream of intangible things as yet undiscovered. The greatest danger in our busy modern lives is that we might be so distracted, so satisfied, that we turn inward and stop growing, stop exploring ... cease dreaming. May it never be. Have a great day, but keep your heart on tomorrow.

From A Dream
It is a most amazing thing
To watch a dream take sprout
To see it grow and flourish
And to watch its shape fill out
To be there when a dream was spawned
Somewhere deep within a man
To watch him shape and mold it
Breathing life into his plan
To observe a dream, intangible
Becoming one of wood and stone
A dream, incarnate, springing from
The seeds one man has sown
It is a most amazing thing
To watch a dream mature
Rising up from the barren ground
In a form that will endure
To have understood the tiny spark
A dream was at the start
And to see it manifest itself
From the vision of one heart
To have shared a dream with someone
And see him make that dream come true
Gives new hope to all us dreamers
That we may see our own dreams through
By Frank Carpenter ©