An Old Man’s Morning Dreams

Joel 1-2

An ancient text written by an ancient man.  No one knows who Joel was, where he was from or when he walked on the earth.  All we have is his name, Joel; meaning Yahweh is God, and a few pages of text.  We love an ancient secret like this.  It stirs our imagination and wonder.  What was he like?  Did he know that he was writing something of God, the very words to be recorded for time immortal?  Did he know that countless souls would cling to his verse as a grandfather to his begotten?  I imagine him a rugged man, a loner, a man of the ground who lingered under the sky and could always smell the earth…

“And it will come about after this

That I (God) will pour out My

         Spirit on all mankind;

And your sons and daughters

         Will prophesy,

Your old men will dream

         dreams…”   2:28

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