Sunday, September 2, 2012

31 in 31 #20 A wondrous dream


31 in 31 #20 A Wondrous Dream

Every now and then a dream has the quality to affect an entire day or maybe longer by both its meaning and atmosphere. I had one of these last night. I was driving in a car holding a very nice baby and I was with my friend and mentor from my youth. (My friend had actually died several months ago and I have had many dreams about him throughout the years.) We were going back to a place where we had started our spiritual work – a house where many good things had happened. As we started walking up a small hill to the house (still carrying the baby very lovingly) I saw a somewhat strange house construction made of concrete blocks and plywood. It was like a “house in the raw” or perhaps just the very essence of a house. It was clear that it had been built by a group of us and it was still there. Moving up the hill we saw several more of these constructions and I realized that others had been building houses also. And then it happened – I looked up the hill and it was infinitely long, going up and up towards the sky and there were thousands of these houses and we both realized that whatever the dreams of our youth it had carried on. I began to cry and so did my friend. We cried and hugged each other. And I woke up in such a beautiful state of hope and appreciation that has lasted all day so far.

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