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DakotaD
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I wonder if dreams are just dreams. Over the past week I have had several religiously themed dreams, no doubt fueled by my current preoccupation with reading the Bible. I know they are just dreams, and dreams are such silly things, but I wonder if there is meaning in them. If not a message of God, perhaps just a message to myself, and so here they are, I hope that you can make some kind of sense of them.
Dream 1
Looking down, I notice that I am wearing a belt. Attached to this belt are loops of steel. For each loop there is an attached chain. These chains lead out to people that I know and care about. There is a chain for my parents and family, a chain for my church, a chain for my job, a chain for my friends, and a chain connected to my boyfriend. The chains are heavy but I don’t mind. Then a well dressed man comes to me with an axe and breaks the chains one by one. With each broken chain, I feel emptier and more alone. And then I am alone, all the chains are broken and I weep. Another man comes to me, this one dressed in rags with his belly growling. He asks me for some food and I take him into my house and feed him. We pray together and then he asks to wash, so I show him to the bathroom. He tells me, “I am weak my friend, would you help a poor man to wash his hair?” And so I help him. As the water washes away the dirt and stink more and more of him shine through until I recognize him for who he is, Christ Jesus. And then he tells me, “Because of your compassion, I will return to you seven fold what you have lost, but only if you choose me and walk the path along the way to the Kingdom of Heaven.”
Dream 2
A man wakes me from a nap on his sofa. The man looks to be Jewish or Arabic. He seems friendly enough. He says to me, “Dinner is ready.” And so I get up and head to the dining room. I sit and I noticed that there were far more plates than there were guest. He looks about the table and says, “We have much to eat and to drink, go out into the streets and bring to me guests, the rich and the poor, so that they may eat and make merry.” And so we go out into the street and bring to him all matter of people. When we are seated, we notice that there are still empty seats and he looks out at them in sadness. Then he says as he breaks the bread, “Take this bread and eat of it, and by eating of it remember me. Bring more to the lords table, so that they may eat of it and live forever.” We eat the bread and the food offered. Then he takes out a wine goblet and fills it, “Also take this drink, and in so doing you will have partaken of the bread and the wine; blood of my blood, flesh of my flesh. Go now into the world and bring more to the Lord’s Table, so that they may eat and drink and live forever.”
Dream 3
I am walking down the street and a lady meets me at the entrance of her house. She invites me in and I follow her. We pray together and talk of our lives. I am quickly wowed by her stories of her simple life of prayer and service to others. And we break bread as she says, “He knows you and he sends me in his stead, so that you may know that he is the Master of all things. My name is Gertrude and he knows your name.” I’m dumbfounded and am speechless. And she says, “The Lord is drawing near, go out in your humbleness and bring to the Lords table as many as you find, so that they may eat with him and live forever.” I tell her I am not ready and she laughs, “No one is ready these days, but doesn’t He say to be ready? Doesn’t he say to be prepared when he returns?” I nod yes, and she adds, “Make straight the path for others and pray often, for the kingdom of heaven draws near and he will have his number.”
All though my life I have had weird dreams such as these and I will more than likely have more. I think they are just the product of my over active imagination. But, I dunno. What do you think?
Dream 1
Looking down, I notice that I am wearing a belt. Attached to this belt are loops of steel. For each loop there is an attached chain. These chains lead out to people that I know and care about. There is a chain for my parents and family, a chain for my church, a chain for my job, a chain for my friends, and a chain connected to my boyfriend. The chains are heavy but I don’t mind. Then a well dressed man comes to me with an axe and breaks the chains one by one. With each broken chain, I feel emptier and more alone. And then I am alone, all the chains are broken and I weep. Another man comes to me, this one dressed in rags with his belly growling. He asks me for some food and I take him into my house and feed him. We pray together and then he asks to wash, so I show him to the bathroom. He tells me, “I am weak my friend, would you help a poor man to wash his hair?” And so I help him. As the water washes away the dirt and stink more and more of him shine through until I recognize him for who he is, Christ Jesus. And then he tells me, “Because of your compassion, I will return to you seven fold what you have lost, but only if you choose me and walk the path along the way to the Kingdom of Heaven.”
Dream 2
A man wakes me from a nap on his sofa. The man looks to be Jewish or Arabic. He seems friendly enough. He says to me, “Dinner is ready.” And so I get up and head to the dining room. I sit and I noticed that there were far more plates than there were guest. He looks about the table and says, “We have much to eat and to drink, go out into the streets and bring to me guests, the rich and the poor, so that they may eat and make merry.” And so we go out into the street and bring to him all matter of people. When we are seated, we notice that there are still empty seats and he looks out at them in sadness. Then he says as he breaks the bread, “Take this bread and eat of it, and by eating of it remember me. Bring more to the lords table, so that they may eat of it and live forever.” We eat the bread and the food offered. Then he takes out a wine goblet and fills it, “Also take this drink, and in so doing you will have partaken of the bread and the wine; blood of my blood, flesh of my flesh. Go now into the world and bring more to the Lord’s Table, so that they may eat and drink and live forever.”
Dream 3
I am walking down the street and a lady meets me at the entrance of her house. She invites me in and I follow her. We pray together and talk of our lives. I am quickly wowed by her stories of her simple life of prayer and service to others. And we break bread as she says, “He knows you and he sends me in his stead, so that you may know that he is the Master of all things. My name is Gertrude and he knows your name.” I’m dumbfounded and am speechless. And she says, “The Lord is drawing near, go out in your humbleness and bring to the Lords table as many as you find, so that they may eat with him and live forever.” I tell her I am not ready and she laughs, “No one is ready these days, but doesn’t He say to be ready? Doesn’t he say to be prepared when he returns?” I nod yes, and she adds, “Make straight the path for others and pray often, for the kingdom of heaven draws near and he will have his number.”
All though my life I have had weird dreams such as these and I will more than likely have more. I think they are just the product of my over active imagination. But, I dunno. What do you think?
