I believe I am dreaming God’s dream for his holy family, his chosen people, a temple of living stones, an earth in harmony with heaven, of God dwelling among mankind. I am trying to describe God’s dream of a holy, blameless and beautiful bride for his Son. The Bride is by all Christian understood as a communion of grace, a fellowship of grace, consisting of men and women who have found mercy and forgiveness. When the bride is described as glorious and faultless is it only because of the work of God who is saving sinners, joining people together and fulfilling his work in them by his grace. More and more people will join this community of God’s people. We are created for this community. We all long for it, sometimes without knowing it, and we can all enter it by the grace of God.

Many people mix dreams and demands. But they are very important to separate from each other. Demands will only paralyze and kill. Dreams will release life and movement towards our destiny. Demands are heavy burdens dragging us down. God’s dream lifts us and carries us through great difficulties and obstacles. Demands discourage us. Dreams encourage us and give us hope for the future. Demands make us slaves. Dreams make us free people who dare to think freely and new. Let us put the demands behind us and that the Dream may blossom!