Dreams

A while ago one of my posts consisted of asking myself, "What is my dream?" I probably didn't explain myself well -why concern myself with my dream? Well, Tom Ehrich states it well in his medication of today. He says, "For it is dreams that truly compel us. Not rules, not laws, not the serene certainties of religion, not work assignments, not contracts, and certainly not compulsion by threat, reward or grim necessity. It is dreams that get us out of bed and into the world, out of isolation and into relationships, out of selfishness and into kindness, and out of despair and into faith. The most wonderful thing a parent can do for a child, or a partner for a loved one, or a manager for an employee, or a friend for a friend, is to encourage dreaming. The unkindest cut is to stifle another's dreams by ignoring or dismissing them."