Where dreams come true...

We drove under the "Welcome To Disney World" sign this morning. The tag line underneath the aforementioned phrase stuck with me all day yesterday - "Where Dreams Come True"

I must have been in a cynical mood because my first thought, dripping with sarcasm was, "Oh please!"

We went to the Disney Wild Kingdom Animal Park today and it was a great day, full of waiting in lines, nausea producing roller coasters that went forward and backward, Daddy Dendy making three baskets in a row with a regulation size basketball going through a barely wide enough hoop to win two stuffed snakes for Faith and Joshua, going on a safari ride, dancing with African street dancers and spectacular people watching opportunities.

Our last event of the day was "The Festival of the Lion King." It was majestic. Brilliant costumes, incredible voices, perfect timing on the choreography, audience participation and the great songs we have come to love from The Lion King like "The Circle of Life."

As the show was about to end everyone was singing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight!" The monkeys were jumping around, the actors on stilts were dancing, the birds were flying and members of the cast went into the front rows and grabbed some children to walk around the staging area in a circle. All the kids were smiling and laughing and dancing.

Then I saw the little boy. He couldn't have been any older than seven or eight. Confined to a wheelchair, he looked like he suffered from cerebral palsy. His head had been gently wedged between two pads to hold it still. His arms and legs were motionless . A zebra (woman dressed up like one with a huge smile on her face) was pushing his wheelchair around the circle along with the other children. The smile on this little boy's face was unmistakable, uninhibited and downright unforgettable!! He couldn't stop smiling! He wouldn't stop smiling!

And that's when it hit me like a ton of bricks...maybe, just maybe his dreams came true today! Tears filled my eyes as I watched his dreams come true, if only for a few moments. And then I suddenly realized that I was watching my own dream come true...

My iWitness...

There it was...

The Circle of Life with Jesus as the Ringleader inviting everyone to "come on in!"

Able bodied and disabled bodied people were part of the show.

People of every race and color were accepted.

There was No fear. No judgment. No bias. No dysfunction. No problems.

Everyone sang.

Everyone danced.

Everyone laughed.

Everyone smiled.

I have to say it...

"It was a dream come true..."

And that's my iWitness...
Laugh often and Fear not!
David!

"Then I saw "a new heaven and a new earth," for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Look! God's dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."

He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" Then he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true." (Revelation 21. 1-5)