{"id":1940,"date":"2016-07-12T04:49:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T11:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2016-07-12T04:49:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T11:49:46","slug":"your-old-men-will-dream-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1940","title":{"rendered":"Your Old Men Will Dream Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15019.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1941\" \/><\/a>\u201cYour old men will dream dreams,\u201d writes the prophet Joel.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, dreaming is not only for the old. Children dream\u2014I dreamed of riding a horse across my own Texas ranch. Adolescents dream\u2014of a cute girl or handsome guy. My college students dreamed\u2014of the successful life that would come as a result of their academic efforts.<\/p>\n<p>So what is the significance of the old dreaming?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, it\u2019s because it\u2019s unexpected. Older people are supposed to be looking back on life; dreaming looks forward. Dreaming is not nostalgic but hopeful. A dreamer doesn\u2019t pine for what used to be, but envisions what can be, what will be.<\/p>\n<p>Joel says the old dream when the Lord pours out his Spirit on all mankind.<\/p>\n<p>Which must be happening now because this old man is dreaming dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYour old men will dream dreams,\u201d writes the prophet Joel. Of course, dreaming is not only for the old. Children dream\u2014I dreamed of riding a horse across my own Texas ranch. Adolescents dream\u2014of a cute girl or handsome guy. My college students dreamed\u2014of the successful life that would come as a result of their academic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions\/1942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}