Saturday, May 23, 1998
Saturday, May 23, 1998
Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let the one who has my
word speak my word faithfully. (Jeremiah 23:28
NRSV)
God has created us to dream. The people who make a difference in this world are the people who
dream. Here is a letter that is dated November 6, 1940, and mailed from Santiago de Cuba. It is
addressed to Mr. Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States. Here is what it says, "My
good friend Roosevelt: I don't know very English, but I know as much as write to you. I like to
hear the radio, and I am very happy, because I heard in it, that you will be President for a new
(periodo).
"I am twelve years old. I am a boy but I think very much, but I do not think that I am writing to
the President of the United States. If you like, give me a ten dollars bill green american, in the
letter, because never, I have not seen a ten dollars bill green american and I would like to have
one of them. "My address is: Sr. Fidel Castro, Colegio de Dolores, Santiago de Cuba, Oriente,
Cuba. "I don't know very English but I know very much Spanish and I suppose you don't know
very Spanish but you know very English because you are American but I am not American.
(Thank you very much) Good by. Your friend, Fidel Castro."
The future Premier of Cuba got an acknowledgment, but no ten bucks. Pity. Might have changed
the political profile of the Western Hemisphere.
People who influence the course of human events begin as dreamers. What dream has God given
to you to fulfill?
Prayer: God of fulfilled dreams, give me the tools I need to fulfill the dreams you have
given to me. Amen.
Ronald Newhouse, Texas, USA