THE QUESTION CORNER
I once had a very strange
terrifying dream in which a woman (probably me) was walking in the marshes at
the end of her street when she encountered a kid in a dinghy, and the kid was sobbing. He had somehow gotten himself safely onto the shore from a storm “out
there” where the wind was strong. The woman could see a large boat “out there” and it was a boat she knew, but it was half sunk. She hugged the kid and brought him home to
her house to be warmed. He ends up asking her to help him with the problem, whatever it was, and she agrees to consider his situation.
As it turns out, he wants
her to attend meetings of some kind with him, which she refuses. Then some sort
of “switch” occurs whereby she falls in love with him, and he takes over, even
convincing her to build a huge pool in her yard that ends up depleting all her resources. Eventually she finds herself in a huge gathering, where she is singing exhuberantly. However, soon people are approaching her, urging her to revise her song. They are strongly suggesting that she change her her tune, saying “Where is the joy in
this?” To their question, the woman replies, “Joy is in the Lord!” Her revised song ends
up a song of praise to the Lord, which does not seem to be the desired outcome.
Then there is some sort
of Review Board, where the woman is required to find a witness to defend her. A
neighbor is enlisted, who agrees, thinking it is an interview to support the
woman in getting a job with Board. But that’s not what this
testimony is about.
I can’t remember the
outcome of the dream, but the whole thing felt like it was about a ruse -- a
deliberate scheme. It also felt like abuse: subtle and gradually increasing pressure
to succumb to something cleverly disguied as something else.
At the risk of freaking everybody out, I humbly ask for feedback to this dream. What think you??!
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