As a society, we don t have much time, usually, for dreamers. Of course, when we fail to dream, it is often because we are satisfied with the ways things are. When we are comfortable and have it made, or when we see ourselves on the way to having it made, there is no incentive to dream of alternatives. Dreams have real power. Advent Dreaming Advent.
Advent is about waiting, about expectancy, about dreaming .
It is about dreaming and hoping and waiting for a future, but not just any future. Its about dreaming and hoping and waiting for a future where the world is cleansed of suffering and sin, for a peaceable and just world, redeemed by love. It is about dreaming and hoping and waiting for a world where the wolf does lie down with the lamb, where Protestant and Catholic in Northern Ireland live together as brother and sister, where Black and White in South Africa can peacefully coexist as one society, where Serb and Croat and Muslim can give up the killing and greed and see unity where recently they saw only difference, where men and women live as equals without violence or oppression, where all people are valued as children of God. It is about dreaming and hoping and waiting for a world ruled by justice, including economic justice, a world where the underlying causes of poverty are addressed, where there will be equity and justice for all. Advent is about dreaming of a future where God will be with us, wiping every tear from the eye, where death and mourning and crying and pain will be no more.