Another year has come and gone. With a new year comes hope of newness. Hope of change. Hope of achieving things that were unachievable in 2010.
Years ago in 1963, a famous champion of equality and freedom declared loudly and clearly a dream that he had for humanity. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. declared:
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream that one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."
Dr. King’s dream has been fulfilled in part, but more remains to be done. Such is the nature of a dream. Parts are fulfilled, others not. We are left to keep pressing forward in what is yet to be done.
2011 is here. Let us dream again as a people and as a church family. Let us imagine what could be fueled by the passion that it should be!
What is your dream for 2011?
Dreaming Again,
Jeff Powell
