My Dreams

Sliding

Floating

Waiting patiently

Careful movements

Quietly entering

This world.

I dreamt

He

Would be

A son.

First born,

A gentle soul;

Fearfully and

Wonderfully made.

I loved him

Deeply

Before

He knew what

Love was.

Kicking

Somersaulting

Arms akimbo

Feet askipping.

Tumbling into

This world.

Before she had

A name

She was a dream

And I named

That dream

So that when

She came to be

She would have

Always had

A name.

True to

Her name,

God has

Graced her

With a son.

Do You Ever...

Do you ever . . .

• have a question that you don't dare ask because it may sound stupid?
• wish that it were true that there are no stupid questions?
• wonder what your dog is thinking . . . and how he's thinking it without words?
• look up and imagine walking on the ceiling instead of the floor?
• try to imagine the sun is shining when it's raining?
• wonder what a butterfly thinks when he finds out he's not a caterpillar anymore?
• wonder if a butterfly and a caterpillar speak the same language?
• go the wrong way because it's the way you remember going . . . and it was wrong then, too?
• wonder what the ocean would look like without any water in it?
• feel like flying with wings and landing on a high tree branch?
• imagine how life would be if you were a seal?
• want to be a character in a book . . . or their best friend? 
• wonder what it would be like to live outside all the time, like a deer?
• imagine you can walk on clouds?
• want ice cream for breakfast?
• picture what it would be like to live in an ant hill?
• wonder what it would be like to think in another language?
• contemplate how to stay sane if you were the last person on earth?
• wonder how you would know if you were insane if there was no one to tell you?
• ponder what someone is doing on the other side of the world at this moment?
• try to picture green grass and sandals while you are in boots shoveling snow?
• wish you could pick your dream for the night?
• wonder what you'd be like if you had been born with a different brain . . . and how would you know?
• wonder what you would be like if you had been born into a different family?
• wonder how a particular family would have been changed if you had been born into it?
• think how life would be different if you'd bought the house across the street?
• wonder what's the thing you are doing right now that will change tomorrow?

I do.