Part 1: I am God’s Dream

“They tell me Lord, that when I pray,

Only one voice is heard;

That I’m dreaming,

You’re not there,

This whole thing is absurd.

Maybe they’re right, Lord,

Maybe they’re right.

Maybe there’s only one voice that’s heard.

But if there’s only one voice that’s heard,

Lord, it’s not mine, it’s your voice.

I’m not dreaming; you are the dreamer

And I am your dream.”

I was quite enamored, smitten by these beautiful words written by C.S Lewis about being the dream of God. These words verbalize and attempt to materialize an abstract concept to me; how a man ought to view himself. Irrefutably, if I perceive myself as the dream of God, it has very profound ramifications and implications on how I would perceive myself. Indeed, a dream, in this context, alludes to aspirations, ideals, and deepest and earnest desires.

C.S Lewis thus means that an omniscient and omnipotent being dreamt of and yearned for my conception as his workmanship, his masterpiece. That whoever he made me to be, he intended, he longed for it. This thus implies, that he did not err, he did not make a mistake molding, shaping, and sculpting me the way I am with all my idiosyncrasies, quirks, peculiarities, and foibles. Because He (God) dreamt for me to be that way. Simply delightful!!!

The Bible concurs by stating that God created man in the imago Dei (the image of God), implying that I (man) was chosen to be a prism through which a divine God, would display his spectral colours and his Divinity to the universe, and that alone should have a profound bearing on my self-esteem, on how I view myself.