Funny Things

A dream is a funny thing. I have a dream. You probably have a dream. Maybe we all have more than one. Who am I to say? Only the Lord and you know that. Sometimes a dream is a source of hope and motivation... sometimes it is more like a Langston Hughes poem.

Dream Deferred

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?

-Langston Hughes

Whatever it happens to be, though, a man's dream goes strait to the heart of him. Laugh at his dream and he will never trust you (no matter how polite he is to your face). Despise his dream and he will despise you. Fail to understand that what he speaks of is his dream and you are on dangerous ground. People long for something and by the time that something gets categorized as a dream, it has woven itself around the very soul of a man and it is not safe to crush it.

I pray that God would guide and shape my dreams Himself. Let him place within me what I cannot create in myself.