Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu has long been admired throughout the world
for the heroism and grace he exhibited while encouraging countless South
Africans in their struggle for human rights. In God Has a Dream, his
most soul-searching book, he shares the spiritual message that guided
him through those troubled times. Drawing on personal and historical
examples, Archbishop Tutu reaches out to readers of all religious
backgrounds, showing how individual and global suffering can be
transformed into joy and redemption. With his characteristic humor, Tutu
offers an extremely personal and liberating message. He helps us to "see
with the eyes of the heart" and to cultivate the qualities of love,
forgiveness, humility, generosity, and courage that we need to change
ourselves and our world.
Echoing the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., he writes, "God says to
you, 'I have a dream. Please help me to realize it. It is a dream of a
world whose ugliness and squalor and poverty, its war and hostility, its
greed and harsh competitiveness, its alienation and disharmony are
changed into their glorious counterparts. When there will be more
laughter, joy, and peace, where there will be justice and goodness and
compassion and love and caring and sharing. I have a dream that my
children will know that they are members of one family, the human
family, God's family, my family.'"
Addressing the timeless and universal concerns all people share, God
Has a Dream envisions a world transformed through hope and compassion,
humility and kindness, understanding and forgiveness.
