God’s Dream

By Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Douglas Carlton Abrams

Dear Child of God,
What do you dream about
in your loveliest of dreams?

Do you dream about
flying high or rainbows
reaching across the sky?

Do you dream about
being free to do what
your heart desires?

Or about being treated
like a full person no
matter how young you
might be?

Do you know what God dreams about

If you close your eyes and look with
your heart, I am sure, dear child,
that you will find out.

God dreams about people sharing.

God dreams about people caring.

God dreams that we reach out and
 hold one another’s hands and play one
another’s games and laugh with one
another’s hearts.

But God does not force us to be
friends or to love one another.

Dear child of God, it does happen
that we get angry and hurt one
another. Soon we start to feel sad
and so very alone.

Sometimes we cry
and God cries with us.
But when we say we’re sorry
and forgive one another,
we wipe away our tears and
God’s tear’s too.

Each of us carries a piece
of God’s heart with in us.

and when we love one another,
the pieces of God’s heart are
made whole.

God dreams that every one of us will
see that we are all brothers and sisters––
yes even you and me––even if we have
different mommies and daddies or live
in different faraway lands.

Even if we speak different languages
or have different ways of talking to God.
even if we have different eyes or
different skin.

Even if you are taller
and I am smaller.
Even if your nose is little
and mine is large.

Dear Child of God,
do you know how to make
God’s dream come true?
It is really quite easy.

As easy as sharing, loving, caring.
As easy as holding, playing, laughing.
As easy as knowing we are family
because we are all God’s children.

Will you help God’s dream come true?
Let me tell you a secret…

God smiles like a rainbow when you do.