A dream is a wish your heart makes

A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you’re fast asleep
In dreams you lose your heartaches
Whatever you wish for, you keep
Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling through
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
The dream that you wish will come true.

I found myself sitting on a log in my backyard today, with an audience of hungry squirrels and trees that shed hot glowing leaves as they slowly burn out, like stars. Isn’t it funny that when you’re young, you cry so that people will take notice? And now it only happens when it’s certain no one’s looking. There were so many things going on at once in my mind; I just couldn’t find the right words to say what I wanted to say. I don’t even know what I would have said if I had had the words. In that moment, I felt like a child who cries because he’s tired and doesn’t know how to tell his mom and dad how he feels, because he has no language yet. I felt like a very young child. It was comforting to believe that the Father knows the word before it’s even on my tongue. That I don’t have to say anything and He understands exactly what I feel without me having to explain myself in words. This song suddenly came to me and the downpour stopped as I started singing these words.

Hope is a very peculiar thing. It dramatically illustrates the capability of the human brain to construct imaginary representations of the universe, allowing us to disengage from the present, recall the past, and forecast the future independent of any current sensory input. Consciousness then enables us to choose among these past, present, and future scenarios and integrate them into coherent plans for action. What is it?

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic but is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. But in reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.

~ by Lovy on October 29, 2009.