Tikkum olam

Tikkun olam (Hebrew: תיקון עולם or תקון עולם‎) is a Hebrew phrase that means "repairing the world" (or "healing the world") which suggests humanity's shared responsibility to heal, repair and transform the world.   
Last night I had an interesting  dream that I was holding a globe that was broken along the equator line into two separate pieces.  I was rebuilding the world piece by piece using not the globe but the continents and countries one at a time as they fit together like a puzzle.  Using the colors and shapes I rebuilt a new completely different world.The colors were filled with light , they looked fascinating juxtaposed together .  The globe became irrelevant.  As an artist I found this interesting and pondered what can this mean?  I looked up in a dream dictionary what a broken globe meant and  found it to say that it meant your world had been broken in some way.  As this is true of my life, it had been completely broken, I felt bad and thought so what why am I dreaming about this, it only makes me feel humiliated.  I already know my life was broken.  The earlier initial pleasure I took in the dream was lost.  Later that day a dear friend who is Jewish came to visit and as is our custom I told her my dream and what I had discovered of its meaning.  She said, no, that was not the interpretation and gave me the phrase Tikkun olam.  This was completely in keeping with how I had originally felt when I woke from the dream.  I had gone to bed that night asking God for insight as to my destiny and purpose.   Twice during the night I had been awoken with the idea in my head that most people had no idea what their purpose or destiny was, and most people never thought about it or that they had one.  I felt like God might have been saying it was important in prayer to pray for our destinies more than our needs because when we were moving in our destiny, we were infused with a God Purpose and therefore everything we needed would be provided for very easily.  I also thought about the importance of helping people see themselves as people with destiny and purpose and if I could see what it was to help encourage them.  (so often people have trouble seeing themselves in the role God has actually cast for them.)  I think of Gideon hiding in a cave threshing his wheat there because Syrian raiders came by frequently and took everything his tribe had.  The angel Gabriel came and called him a mighty man of valor.  His answer was I am the least of my tribe and not a very likely candidate.  He asked for a sign or two and when he got them he was encouraged enough to step into the role.  
I thought about how God had used my brokenness as a way to understand how on a big scale, everything is broken and in need of remaking.  In this way I felt God using my problem and making it useful and no longer my humiliation, merely part of a story that has real significance. 
I know that it is part of my families destiny to help heal the world.   As an artist light and shape and color are often my communication tools.  As I am no longer young and have seen a few things, I also know that I can sometimes see a glimpse of another persons destiny and purpose and I feel called to help call it out if I can.  There are a lot of us now, who can do that, I think.  Perhaps it is time we should.