The
following is by Glenn Rudolph which was written in memory of the victims of the
attacks of September 11, 2001. I received it from my friends Mac and Linda in their 2014 Christmas letter, and I post it with their permission. It perfectly describes my dream for the new year, every year.
Lions and oxen
will sleep in the hay,
leopards will
join with the lambs as they play,
wolves will be
pastured with cows in the glade,
blood will not
darken the earth that God made.
Little child
whose bed is straw,
take new lodgings
in my heart.
Bring the dream
Isaiah saw:
life redeemed
from fang and claw.
Peace will
pervade more than forest and field:
God will
transfigure the Violence concealed
deep in the heart
and in systems of gain,
ripe for the
judgment the Lord will ordain.
Little child
whose bed is straw,
take new lodgings
in my heart.
Bring the dream
Isaiah saw:
justice purifying
law.
Nature reordered
to match God's intent,
nations obeying
the call to repent,
all of creation
completely restored,
filled with the
knowledge and love of the Lord.
Isaiah's dream: "The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together, and a little child will lead them." Isaiah 11:6
My dream: I shall cease mentally fighting anything and anybody.
Thank you.
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