Anthem for SSAATTBB choir, unaccompanied

Dream Me, God - Dorothee Soelle

It’s not you who should solve my problems, God,
but I yours, God of the asylum-seekers.
It’s not you who should feed the hungry,
but I who should protect your children
from the terror of the banks and armies.
It’s not you who should make room for the refugees,
but I who should receive you,
hardly hidden God of the desolate.

You dreamed me, God,
practicing walking upright
and learning to kneel down
more beautiful than I am now,
happier than I dare to be
freer than our country allows.

Don’t stop dreaming me, God.
I don’t want to stop remembering
that I am your tree,
planted by the streams
of living water.

English text copyright © 2012 Fortress Press. For local use only.
Reproduced by permission of Fortress Press.
Translated from the German, “Träume Mich, Gott”
in Das Brot der Ermutigung (Stuttgart: Kreuz, 2008)
As published in Dorothee Soelle: Mystic and Rebel
by Renate Wind (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2012), p. 1.