Dream Weaver by Gary Wright

Lyrics

I know this song was written about drugs.  Gary Wright is singing to his drug that he believes will get him through the night.

Bottom line:  Drug abuse is detrimental to our long-term health.  Drugs may seem to solve our problems in the moment, but in the end we develop a dependence upon them despite the negative consequences (see Wikipedia).

I know that some drugs are used for appropriate medicinal purposes as prescribed by a doctor.  That is not the kind of drug this song is referring to.  We are talking about the abuse of any kind of substance in order to resolve our fears or our depressions.

But I absolutely delight in taking songs like this and spinning the story by changing the one variable that makes it a song I wouldn’t want to listen to let alone allow my children to listen to.  The variable in this song is WHAT or WHO we turn to to get us through the night.  My kids know how I would answer this.  My Dream Weaver is Jesus Christ.  I substitute him for the drug.  His Spirit and his comfort in very difficult times is better and more effective than any drug.  Watch this video.

Before I was taught how to spin stories and change variables, I would often throw the baby out with the bath water.  So if I knew this song, "Dream Weaver" was about drug abuse then I would turn it off.  Refuse to listen to it.  Bad.  And I would be angry at the artist because he was promoting ideas that conflicted with my core beliefs of what is good for me, for my family, and for our society in general. 

When I learned about the variables Cause, Process, Effect, and Result (CPER), I began to summarize my world.  So Drugs are an Effect.  The Spirit of God is an Effect.  Music acts an Effect.  Effects are what we feel upon interacting with Causes and experimenting upon the Processes they advocate.  CPER enabled me to see WHY some things are good and some things are bad.  And usually it’s not the THING that is bad.  It’s the way we use it or ab-use it.  We use it in a way it was not intended to be used. 

Knowing this very fact enabled me to see that relying on something or someone to support me when it/he/she doesn’t have the ability to do so creates a conflict.  The scriptures refer to these things as IDOLS (see the Ten Commandments and Idols).  When I summarized this concept with that word IDOL, I could then see what all the fuss about idols was in the stories of the Old Testament.  Idols are not dead to us in our new intellectual advanced technological enlightened day and age.  They are alive and well.  And they continue to influence and entrap us.

Developing a long-term relationship with an idol is bad news.  But when I understood that the bad thing about this isn’t the desire to trust in someone or something.  It is the Cause variable:  WHAT or WHO do we put our trust in?  We have a choice.  But we don’t have a choice about the consequences of developing relationships with a Cause that cannot sustain us in the long run but instead entraps us into a slave-like addiction that robs us of our ability to love those who are closest to us.

The Servant Program that I have written is only an account of how my Cause has taught me.  I’m reporting.  It is not something I knew since I was born.  Before it was explained to me I was all tied up in knots about so many things which affected many of my relationships.  So my Cause (I have chosen Jesus Christ), through the Spirit and study of the scriptures and many other good books, has taught me about Cause, Process, Effect, and Result.  This is the pattern that has emerged in my mind as I have summarized all that I read, hear, and see.  It is the order I see, the way I categorize all that I mentally digest. With these variables I understand myself and others much better.  I don’t have to believe I’m evil or others are evil at heart.  I can see where the CHOICE is that makes a PROCESS good or evil.

I take this song from Gary Wright and agree with him!  We do need a Dream Weaver who will get us through the night.  And because he does and continues to, I will sing a song of redeeming love about him and to Him.