So, once in a while I have a dream that I feel is significant. I had such a dream this morning and as I awoke I told my wife about it. Here it is…
I was visiting the Seattle area, from whence we once lived for 8 years. I was picked up from the airport by my former Pastor Dave Pardee. Dave was chatting with me in the van while I was sitting in the middle seat. In the middle of getting caught up with chit-chat, he turns to me and says “You know, you will have to die, one way or another.” Woah! Well, OK but why!?!
We are in the church office on Friday afternoon with a small staff meeting. Dave is explaining that Rich has agreed to do this and we now have to discuss what we are going to do. Will we have as big bloody scene at the church where everyone can see for themselves the evidence, or will we tell everyone that he has been “lost” in the river. Someone is drawing some bloody splats on the paper table cloth.
Wow. I have no idea what is going on here and I agreed to this!?! I walk down the hall to the bathroom and look at myself in the mirror.
The next scene is me watching from a corner (not actually there). People are coming into the church for a Friday night service. It is Good Friday. The cops have their car outside of the church and the lights are flashing. Dave is talking to the cops and signs a clipboard and the cops leave. Dave comes before the church and tells that their friend, Rich Brimer, who most of them know, has been lost in the river. His belongings have been recovered from the shore, but he is missing and presumed dead.
Sunday Morning
The worship band is finishing a song and two women that are friends get up and are talking about loosing their good friend. They are nearly in tears and talking about how they can’t believe he is gone. Then all of a sudden, they look up and I am standing in front of the church and they look up and see me. I am in the middle of an Easter play, playing Jesus. The two Mary’s look up at me and rush to me to see if it is true that I am alive.
Pastor Dave comes out and in the shock of seeing their friend (me) he says that this is exactly how the disciples must have felt when their “friend” and teacher – Jesus – showed up on Easter morning.
I wake up 2 minutes before the alarm and tell my wife about this really strange dream.
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