God has a dream. This is the title of an amazing book written by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Nelson Mandela wrote of this book ‘Desmond Tutu shows each of us how to transform our pain and sorrow into hope and confidence in the future’. This book has helped me to understand how it is possible for us to see the world through God’s loving eyes.

For me, the most important message in this book was about how we judge. How do I put myself on a pedestal and look down on others? How do I judge sin? What categories do I create, so that the sins of my heart can appear to me as less important?

This book spoke so much love to me. Not a soppy kind of love that sweeps us off our feet, but true love, love that can only come from God. This love takes hard work, but it’s worth it, because it’s life transforming and world transforming.

Desmond Tutu has seen humanity at its worst and it blows my mind to think that little me, who lives such an easy life, should find it hard to have the love he demonstrates in some of the most unjust places in the world. In the face of his oppressors during the years of apartheid in South Africa Desmond would demonstrate such love that only God can give. Imagine how changed the world would be if we all strove to demonstrate this awesome love to those who oppose us.