You might think this is weird, but since the age of nine, I have had a really bad crush on the Osmond Brothers. They were my one true teeny bopper obsession. I had a Donny Osmond notebook. A Donny Osmond lunch kit. A Donny Osmond pillowcase. Donny Osmond and Osmond Brothers posters plastered all over my wall. Of course I had all their albums, and I used to mimic Jay Osmond, the drummer, and learned how to play drums by imitating him.

I had forgotten all this until just a few weeks ago with the Osmond Brothers 50th Anniversary Concert on PBS. In the text today, I suddenly recalled that the only time I have ever seen the Osmonds in person was when I saw Donny Osmond in Andrew Lloyd Weber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Usually, the "coat of many colors" gets all the press, but in this case, something else caught my eye: "Here comes this dreamer."

When watching the PBS Special, I was reminded why the Osmond Brothers got started in the first place. First, the group has two older brothers, who are deaf. The younger ones started singing at parties and stuff in order to help buy hearing aids. And second, as Mormons, they wanted to raise money to go on their missions that all teenage Mormon boys must go on in order to be considered faithful.

YouTube videos of those old performances showed that this musical family wasn't just performing for the fun of it, the prestige, or the money. They did it because they believed it was their calling. Their true calling to spread a message of hope and positive messages all over the world. You can see it on their young faces and just know there was something very different about them.

Their calling and their dream. And their desire to be faithful.

MCC of Greater Dallas has a dreams and a calling too, and we already know why we do what we do: 1) for our soul siblings-our brothers and sisters-whom we love, and 2) for the world "out there." It really is pretty simple, and we must never forget this nor take our eyes off of it. .