A Conversation About the Birthday Boy

Spirit: How strange it is: the cake is here, the guests have arrived, the meeting place is ready, but the birthday boy is absent…

HOLY SPIRIT: He is here, he simply celebrates in another place. He was born on this day to show My great love for many people and for you.

Spirit: I find it hard to understand. Help me believe…

HOLY SPIRIT: Our boy is alive. He is more alive than many people who died while still living. And what I began through him will live on!

Spirit: Lord, it seems I'm beginning to understand—what fire is bursting in my heart! May I share it with others?

Flesh: What can you do? What nonsense about dreams and fire! Say nothing to anyone, people will mock you!

That day I heeded neither the flesh nor my fears of ridicule or rejection. And to all—everyone who came to be with us on Timoshka's birthday, I told about the Dream that God placed in our hearts!

I remember well the moment when, taking a deep breath, I asked for the guests' attention:

"Friends, I want to tell you about a Dream that lives in our hearts!"

And then with all my passion I began to infect others with our God-given Dream.

And, oh miracle—no one laughed, no one tried to dissuade us. On the contrary, in the eyes of those present I saw approval, acceptance, and a desire to join us. A peculiar birth of the Dream occurred for people. Until that day it had been conceived and carried within a heart that had endured pain and loss.

So, I wonder, what is this Dream?