Last week, the devotional took an hour to write. I was done
by 10:00 a.m. This week, it’s 11:00 a.m. and I’ve just started writing this
sentence. I had a vision last week, though it was changed by the time I got to
the middle of the writing. I didn’t know when I started that I would write
about John Perkins. I thought I’d write the whole piece about Olympic champions.
What I thought about from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. today was
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, given 45 years ago on
this date. And, today, the Democrats are nominating a man for the United States
presidency who has a Kenyan father. Whether they vote for him or not, surely
that is a dream come true for African-Americans. As a white woman, I’m sure
I have no idea what it means to my Black friends. I doubt they could adequately
convey the feelings to me.
But I know what it’s like to have a vision fulfilled, if
changed. Last week, writing the devotional was a microcosm. And I’m walking out
a larger vision. I sent a book manuscript to the publisher yesterday. It’ll be
out in the spring. We’ll find out how that dream changes. May God’s will be
done and his dreams for all of us be realized, however different they might be
than what we envision.
May your Kingdom come,
your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.