Out of the Valley of Broken Dreams

On Pentecost Sunday, Joni Sancken, Assistant Professor at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, spoke on Ezekiel 37:1-14. Ezekiel’s prophecy of dry bones comes in the context of Judah’s exile in Babylon. Jerusalem has been destroyed. The valley of bones holds the broken hopes and dreams of God’s people. Not unlike Ezekiel, all of us have found, or will find, ourselves in this valley of broken dreams. Just like the bones Ezekiel found in the valley, we can be transformed and brought to new life by the working of the Holy Spirit. Just like Ezekiel is called to testify to the dry bones, we are called to testify to those dry places in our world, inviting the renewal of dreams through the work of the Holy Spirit.