Between the Dreaming and the Coming True

I just finished reading an absolutely beautiful book, and it deserves a much longer post than I have time to write at the moment, but I wanted to share the closing lines of the book with you, because they grabbed at me and spoke deeply.

The journey between the dreaming and the coming true is a journey made on holy ground. It is a journey made through silence and longing where, if we will listen, we can hear the whisper of the Dreamer echoing deep within us, calling us to become what the Dreamer sees when our names were first whispered: saints who believe in and pay attention for and recognize the Voice; saints who live our lives in joy and confidence and hope rather than judgement and anxiety and desperation; saints whose hours and days and lives are spent carrying people to the Christ, lending each other a hand when one of us has fallen, slipping along the river that brings joy to to the heart of God, carrying God's peace and love and presence and life to those we meet along the way.

That is what we have been sent here to do. And we will. The Dreamer's dreams will always come true.

The book shares the same title as this post, and is by a man named Robert Benson, and you should all go out and pick it up and read it. It's skinny, and an easy read. But so beautifully written and deeply profound. Definitely a new favorite for me.