All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one.
_{John 17:10-11}

One of the most striking features in the worship space of the Lakota Lutheran Center in Scottsbluff — where I am currently serving as interim pastor — is a large, beautiful dreamcatcher adorned with feathers and butterflies that takes up the entirety of a large, round window high up in the wall behind the chancel. The image of the dreamcatcher kept coming back to me as I contemplated the readings for this Sunday. And not only did this image wind up in my sermon; I actually decided to weave a dreamcatcher while I preached!