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Dreams Are Our Birthright

God "dreamed us into existence" and God, in turn, implants dreams within us. To pursue our hopes and dreams requires courage, which is the basic orientation of an act of hope. ... [To] fail to dream a better future is to deny the God of faithful love, to deny ourselves our own birthright.

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