How many know the 1975 song, “Dream Weaver” by Gary Wright? Wright apparently took the idea for the song from John Lennon, who in his song “God” saw himself as the “dream weaver” of the 1960s, “breaking away from the influences and dogmas that informed his life.”*
Lennon in fact spent his life trying to “break free” of the childhood traumas and psychological demons that plagued him, as well as cultural conventions. That “liberation” theme came out frequently in his music, and in his life. Lennon was continually searching for ways to break the chains that bound him. In voicing that longing, he became an icon for all those with similar liberation “dreams.”
Our scriptures in advent abound and resound with liberation themes. Each story is soaked in reverberations of hope and dreams of a new…