Presbyterian Youth Triennial

Dreams play an important role in the biblical narrative. It is often through dreams that God speaks to God’s beloved. Sometimes it is a promise. Sometimes it is a warning. Always it is a reminder that we are not alone; God sees us and is with us. There is a passage in the Psalms where God’s exiled people were all but without hope, wondering if God had forgotten them. But God restored their hope and brought them back home. The only way they could describe their experience was that it was “as if we were dreaming.” [1]

When God restores our hope and brings us back to ourselves (physically, spiritually, metaphorically) it can seem as if it is a dream; a dream come true. The thought of bringing young people together in this post pandemic, complex, and sometimes frightening world feels “as if we are dreaming.” “We can only imagine…