Joe Kane had a dream. The San Francisco reporter dreamed of rafting the entire length of the Amazon River – 4,200 miles. Joe Kane was raised in the city and knew next to nothing about rafting, or the Amazon, or insects or snakes or drug-traffickers or Marxist guerillas. He traveled with his wild dream to the source of the Amazon – just a trickle of water some 17,000 feet above sea level in the Andes Mountains in the nation of Peru. For six months he fought rapids, bad drinking water, insects, terrorists’ bullets, 1,000-foot gorges, and fatigue. But he did it! He accomplished his dream! He paddled the river, beginning to end!
Joe Kane wrote a book about this adventure, Running the Amazon. (It is available on Amazon.com, of course!) One thing is very clear from this incredible story: Joe was not afraid to dream! He was not afraid of a mighty challenge, of taking a gargantuan risk on the planet’s second longest and most dangerous river. What two things drove him to succeed were his dreaming and his daring. This Pentecost Sunday’s lectionary story is of the birth of the church. It is a story of dreams and visions.
Pentecost Sunday
Scripture: Acts 2:1-7, 12-18
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