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From: SueKay
Date: Sat Mar 20 00:37:52 MST 2004 Subject: Heaven

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I had this dream last night, just wanted to write it down.

In my dream I am walking down the streets of heaven. I am new there, but I don't remember dying. As I walk by one of the houses, a friend of mine with curly gray hair shouts to me from a second story window and comes rushing out on his balcony to talk to me. He is very excited. "Remember those drawings I did in first grade?" he asks me excitedly, and I visualize a simple drawing of a heart made in crayon. "Well," he says, "turns out I am meant to be a sculptor! God was calling me into my artistic talent, but I ignored him. I can't stay to talk, I can't wait to get back to my studies. In a few weeks, I should be ready to start working in stone!" He rushes back inside, and I shake my head and smile, and walk on down the road. Next I come to a library and, being a lover of books, I stop to look around. Inside it is all dark wood book shelves and plush chairs and desks and windows with stained glass. Very cozy and expensive looking at the same time. I notice some books lying open on a table, and next to them some paper with writing on it. Looking closer, I realize that the writing is a correspondence between Blanca and Nate, discussing some books they are reading on theology. I can tell from their writing that they are very enthusiastic and excited about what they are learning as they read, and enjoying the dialogue with each other. It seems to me that they are both studying to be theologians. Then I leave the library, stepping into the street again. Now I know where I am going. I am going to my house, a cottage down the road, to meet my daughter. I am going to teach her how to fly. She is about 6 - 8 years old. I get to the cottage and my daughter rushes out to meet me. I tell her we are going to fly along side a plane just in case we need any help. I hold her hand and we fly up into the air, towards a plane in the distance. All is well until we get up to the plane. Then all of a sudden I am worried that if we don't get attached to the plane right away, we will fall. When I look down at the green earth and the blue-white clouds below me, I know I will be fine if I do fall, but I am still scared. Now I have become the little girl, and it is my daddy who is flying with me. I keep switching perspective between being the little girl and the adult, and watching the scene from outside. We hook ourselves on to the outside of the plane and it is very tense for a few minutes. The hooks keep slipping and I have to hold on to the plane for dear life. Finally the door opens and we get in, and I am the adult again. There is a pilot and two kids in the plane. The pilot turns around and he is someone I knew before who was missing both of his legs from an accident, but now he is whole! God has given him a beautiful body. The pilot is also very excited about what life has in store for him now. He tells me how he is going to be in a ballet soon, give the performance of a lifetime, extremely demanding leg work. He looks lovingly over at the two kids he has with them and tells me how he has adopted them since he got here (to heaven.) There parents didn't make it, and they were sad about it, but now he is a parent to them and that makes all of them happy.
There was more to the dream after that, but I can't remember. Feel free to comment!
- Susan Keltner

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From: mike
Date: Fri Mar 19 19:40:40 MST 2004 Subject: I wonder

Cool dream. I wonder, was it a gift from the Lord, sort of a preview of heaven? Or just a dream. God gave me a glimpse of heaven once I treasure, and increases my longing to go home.

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From: Suki
Date: Fri Mar 26 08:42:23 MST 2004 Subject:

What a cool dream! When I read it, I thought, “This is what God is doing at the Village.” I’ve just been seeing this thread of freedom wind its way through people's lives -- watching people choose to trust God in new ways and branch out into new experiences without giving way to fear. Resting in His love for us. That’s not to say that everything’s perfect and healed like it will be some day. But there’s a sense of excitement for me in Jesus' statement that the kingdom of heaven is at hand. I think we get to watch it unfold around us and enter into it (even, at some level, create it?) now.

I was reading Lifesigns recently (Henri Nouwen). He talks about ecstasy being a fundamental part of the Christian life: “To be ecstatic literally means to be outside of a static place. Thus, those who live ecstatic lives are always moving away from rigidly fixed situations and exploring new, unmapped dimensions of reality. Here we see the essence of joy…. Joy is essentially ecstatic since it moves out of the place of death, which is rigid and fixed, and into the place of life which is new and surprising. ‘God is God not of the dead but of the living’ (Matthew 22:32). There is no tinge of death in God. God is pure life. Therefore living in the house of God is living in a state of constant ecstasy, in which we always experience the joy of being alive.”

That’s what your dream made me think of.

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