A Few of My Dreams

2006-08-08

I had a dream last night of which I remember many segments. It took place in Texas. One of the segments strengthened my faith. I share that segment below:

There was a movie or a play we attended. It had obscenities, and the entire audience walked out en masse, which heartened me to see. Then the thought occured to me we might ask for a refund. I was pricked in my heart and ashamed, because I knew our Lord had commanded not to seek riches. But I waved my wallet and went to the box office window. I must have received the refund, though that was not in the dream, because the next thing I knew I was flying over all the people.

But in the next scene I had a hard time flying. It seems I was weighed down by something. I didn't realize it at the time, but later in the dream I found out what it was (and in the telling to you I am seeing the connection).

In the next scene I was off to the west of the crowd, and I had one of my boots filled with gold coins. I was not able to fly at all. Some young ruffians approached, presumably to steal the coins. I lay down on the ground and cried aloud, "O, Lord God, bless these boys that they may .... " and I don't remember the rest of the prayer. It was either a plea that they remember their mothers or have mercy on an old man, or remember their Holy Father. In any case, the boys stopped molesting me. It later occurred to me I should have either let them dig in my boot for "whatever you need" or offer them from my boot.

A lady saw what had happened and apparently saw something miraculous in it. She started to call to the people to jubilate about the miracle, when I begged her to consider praying first before spreading the word abroad.

She commenced (to my amazement) to have a Texas Baptist style prayer service with the people right there (and I considered how when the fervor of worship comes over the people they miss the mark so lovingly and sweetly), complete with gospel singing in which I joined.

2005-01-16

The Night the Children Sang, a special dream I had and the song I heard