Dreams of Progress

Accord­ing to dream the­o­rists, when you dream about planes, trains, and auto­mo­biles, you are express­ing the feel­ing that your life is going for­ward. There are other modes of trans­porta­tion that count toward this too. Hav­ing been an avid bicy­clist and rollerblade ani­mal, I add those to the list. What­ever expresses for­ward progress is good.

I sel­dom share actual dreams with peo­ple, but lately my dream life has been pretty active. Maybe that is to com­pen­sate for the oth­er­wise drab Jan­u­ary envi­ron­ment. Maybe it is because my soul is try­ing to get me to see the pos­si­bil­i­ties of the new year ahead.

Any­way, last night’s dream was about my abil­ity to go every­where on rollerblades. In my dreams, I am pretty good at it. What made the dream inter­est­ing was my dis­cus­sion with Greg and Sam Jones about the advan­tages of rollerblades over skate­boards. That’s right, part of the dream was see­ing Greg Jones on a skate­board. He can really move on that thing. Halfway through the dream, he and Sam shifted to rollerblades.

I will give an inter­pre­tive spin to this: The facil­i­ties com­mit­tee has seen a lot of progress this last year. Last week the insu­la­tion was installed and the new fur­naces for the sanc­tu­ary are on the way. Greg, Wyman, Chris, and many oth­ers are lead­ing the way in com­plet­ing some of our dreams. Other com­mit­tee heads and mem­bers are also doing out­stand­ing jobs. All are to be praised. By the Lord’s grace, we con­tinue in motion.

There is a book titled: Dreams — God’s For­got­ten Lan­guage. I no longer have the vol­ume, but I remem­ber many of its key points. Note how often dreams are part of the Bible. God is not going to let us waste eight hours each day. Our dream life is worth pon­der­ing. It may even be the all-night-psychiatrist. Pay atten­tion to every­thing. God is alive in every facet of existence.