“To dream the impossible dream.” So sings Don Quixote in the “Man of La Mancha.” It’s an inspiring song, but of course Don Quixote was nuts, crazy, stark-staring bonkers. He was an old man who though he was a knight and jousted with windmills.

Dreamers are seldom treated well in our society. They are dismissed as unrealistic and impractical. Yet, I am inspired by the notion of an impossible dream. Why? Because everything about Jesus was impossible. That God should become flesh? Impossible! That the Savior of the world should be murdered on a cross? Impossible! That a dead man should rise to new life? Impossible! But these weren’t impossible. All of them really happened.

What’s more, I think Jesus calls us to dream the impossible. Dream of a world where the hungry are fed, where the meek inherit the earth, where peacemakers are called the children of God. Dream of a world where we love others as we love ourselves, love even out enemies.

Are those dreams crazy, or is it the world we live in filled with greed, hate, and violence that is crazy?  In 1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy made a speech in which he quoted George Bernard Shaw: “Some people see things as they are and say why?  I dream things that never were and say, why not?”  Why not indeed.

Sisters and Brothers, dream the impossible dream–a world that lives the way Jesus taught us. Strive to make that dream come true. And above all, trust that with God all things are possible.

Read Joel 2:28 and remember: God loves YOU unconditionally.

Wayne