The Human Prayer Chain

"Everything that is or was, began with a dream."

~Lavagirl

Last night, I had a dream.

I dreamt that my entire church joined together to surround my neighborhood with prayer.

Men, women, and children.....thousands of us, joined hands and formed a human prayer chain around the entirety of Grant neighborhood.

We prayed for healing in our lives, we prayed for peace, for strength and for hope! The entire neighborhood echoed with the voices of young and old, as the spirit of Christ moved and rumbled through the streets.

I live in an inner city neighborhood.

Addiction, murder, prostitution, domestic violence, children bringing hand guns into our elementary school...all of these things happen here.

Known or unknown, seen or unseen, these things happen here.

Wouldn't it be an amazing moment if the body of Christ literally rose up, and then showed up to surround this neighborhood with prayer? We could invite all people, of all faiths to join us.

I have this vision of the "saved" and the "unsaved", the "haves" and the "have nots", the english speakers and the nonenglish speakers, all of us joining together and uniting together to pray for blessings upon this neighborhood.

It would be a powerful thing and a good thing.

Which is precisely why it may never come to pass...but still, a person can dream, can't they?