The story of Joseph in the Bible has echoes in our time in the life of Dr. ML King, Jr. “Here comes that master dreamer! Come on, let us kill him… We shall then see what comes of his dreams.” As we have experienced, you can kill the dreamer but you can’t kill the dream if it comes from God. As Dr. King once remarked, “the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” Of course, as the Parable of the Tenants reminds us, some dreams are not from God but are based on greed or selfishness. Our dreams should be for those things which are God’s desire for our world — compassion, forgiveness, solidarity. I can’t remember who said it but it is certainly true: it is the loftiest dream that is the surest of being fulfilled.
