Dreams

Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” (Matthew 19:21, New International Version) 

I’ve had that paper in my drawerful of memories from my kids for a long time. It was an assignment of Val’s from when she was in second or third grade. If you can’t read it, her answer is “I have a dream that all the poor children are not poor. And that the wars will not happen.”

She wrote that years before our first trip to Kenya, over a decade before she returned to Africa for six months which would change her life. But there she was, just that little girl, dreaming of saving little kids from lives of poverty, dreaming of a world full of peace, where we all love each other.

And my dream is that Val – at least her memory – keeps making the world a better place.

        “I give you a new command: Love each other. You must love each other as I have loved you. All people will know that you are my followers if you love each other.” (John 13:34-35, New Century Version)