Dreams Worth Dreaming
Illustration★★★★I must also see Rome. ac. 19:21 Every life has its secret hope, its hidden desire. Our work lies, so to speak, in the provinces of life, but our heart often goes out to the capital.
Life is not fully expressed for any of us in the routine of our service. It is not measured by the inch-tape of experience. It is larger than these things. It has room for the unrealized.
And if we should be very frank with ourselves and each other, we should confess that one of the inspirations and comforts of life for us, especially as we most feel the limitation and difficulty and irksomeness and prosaism of it, is the whisper to our own heart, “I must also see Rome.” And the first thing I want you to let St. Paul teach you is this, that only the religion of Jesus Christ can make your dream of Rome worth dreaming. Percy C.
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The point
Every life has a hidden dream beyond its routine ("I must also see Rome"). Only Christian faith can make such dreams worth dreaming, lifting us beyond the measurement of daily tasks to embrace the transcendent.