Let today be the day you embrace your beautiful spirit and shine light for those living in the dark. Light their path so the road traveled will be seen more clearly. You never know how much a simple act of kindness is appreciated if you never try. Be that candle for someone today and shine bright.

We get too comfortable with this orphanage universe though. We sit in our pews or behind our pulpits knowing that our children watch Christian cartoons instead of slash films. We vote for the right candidates and know all the right worldview talking points. And were content with the world we know just adjusted a little for our identity as Christians. Thats precisely why so many of us are so atrophied in our prayers why our prayers rarely reach the level of groanings too deep for words Rom 826. We are too numbed to be as frustrated as the Spirit is with the way things are.

I had a dream about you. You wore all yellow and I wore all blue and together we were trying to make the world a little greener. Not through sex as I wanted but through recycling.

Im almost convinced that Im never awake. Im not sure if Im not in fact dreaming when I live and living when I dream or if dreaming and living are for me intersected intermingled things that together form my conscious self.

From Les MiserablesAll at once in the midst of this profound calm a fresh sound arose a sound as celestial divine ineffable ravishing as the other had been horrible. It was a hymn which issued from the gloom a dazzling burst of prayer and harmony in the obscure and alarming silence of the night womens voices but voices composed at one and the same time of the pure accents of virgins and the innocent accent of children -- voices which are not of the earth and which resemble those that the newborn infant still hears and which the dying man hears already. This song proceeded from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden. At the moment when the hubbub of demons retreated one would have said that a choir of angels was approaching through the gloom.Cosette and Jean Valjean fell on their knees.They knew not what it was they knew not where they were but both of them the man and the child the penitent and the innocent felt that they must kneel.These voices had this strange characteristic that they did not prevent the building from seeming to be deserted. It was a supernatural chant in an uninhabited house. While these voices were singing Jean Valjean thought of nothing. He no longer beheld the night he beheld a blue sky. It seemed to him that he felt those wings which we all have within us unfolding.The song died away. It may have lasted a long time. Jean Valjean could not have told. Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment.

I had a dream about you while having a dream about you. We were watching the movie Inception and drinking dj vu.

The deeper your thoughts the clearer your dreams. The clearer your dreams the higher you fly. Decide to fly

I had a dream about you. You had just developed a way to drink sleep and I owned a coffee shop. You wanted to partner up but I suggested a more natural fit would be with a hotel. I recommended a sleazy one downtown where all the hookers go to sell sex.

I breathe in the soft saturated exhalations of cedar trees and salmonberry bushes fireweed and wood fern marsh hawks and meadow voles marten and harbor seal and blacktail deer. I breathe in the same particles of air that made songs in the throats of hermit thrushes and gave voices to humpback whales the same particles of air that lifted the wings of bald eagles and buzzed in the flight of hummingbirds the same particles of air that rushed over the sea in storms whirled in high mountain snows whistled across the poles and whispered through lush equatorial gardensair that has passed continually through life on earth. I breathe it in pass it on share it in equal measure with billions of other living things endlessly infinitely.

Even if you know youre sleeping youre still at the mercy of your dreams. People who are asleep cant simply decide to wake up. Nightmares dont let you off that easily. They hold you in their clutches until they decided in their own good time to let you go.