An Interesting Dream

Last night I had a dream where a big building where a big group of friends (and other people that I didn't know) and I were meeting -- it looked kind of like a business or school building -- anyway, the building caught on fire. In the next part of the dream, we were all refugees. I mean, we all had bags packed, like we were leaving town with all of our essential possessions with us. I remember a large train of people, myself and my family included, trudging through the streets, looking for someplace to go. No one knew where we were going -- we knew we just couldn't stay at the original building anymore, because it was burning, on every level of the multi-storied facility. Several people looked back at the building and were hoping to go back in, saying out loud that perhaps the fire would be contained on only the upper levels, but it was obvious to me, looking at the building burn through the many windows, that every level was on fire and that there would be no saving the building.

We (the train of people) eventually found someplace to sleep for a night, but it was like a cheap, Japanese-style motel. You know, the kind with the individual sleeping "pods". Everyone made a mad dash for the rooms that were individual pods, but when I glanced in them, they didn't even have pillows or mattresses; they were just basically stone slabs that you could lay down on. Still, the rooms were being taken rapidly, because everyone just wanted to have a place to sleep and they didn't want to have to share. Since all the "pods" were taken, my family ended up going on down the hall to what was more like a dormer room -- one large room with a bunch of bunks. Nothing fancy here - in fact, the only bathroom facilities were shared, and over by the more-desired pod rooms. Everyone was all really annoyed by our situation, complaining about the lack of bathrooms, how we had to share them, and how in the world were we going to be able to meet together anymore when we were all crammed together, in the full view of people who didn't want to meet with us, had no interest in joining us? Some thought the non-meeters would be distracting to us. They wanted to try to find another building to meet in, but no one had any money to buy a new building (all the money had been left behind in the fire).

So even though many thought it was not ideal, we just grabbed a central bed in the dormer room, and we all opened up our books and started reading together. Yes, lots of people were looking at us, observing what we were doing, but mostly we discovered that instead of being a distraction, they were actually quietly interested (though not yet committed to the point of joining us over on the bed where we were all meeting).

Just an interesting dream I had.

Last night at homegroup, after discussing some about the Lord's Supper, we decided to put it into practice and share communion together, using some grape juice that Caroline just happened to make for drinking, and a couple extra rolls from a dinner at Bob Evans, that Becky just happened to have in her car. Afterwards we sung a few hymns together, and then Natalie and Caroline's daughter came by asking for our extra bread and grape juice. I didn't know what they were doing with it (just figuring they wanted a snack since we were going to go get dinner after our meeting and they'd been whining about hunger the whole evening), but they took the juice and bread, grabbed a Bible, then ran about 50 yards away to the back of the yard (they have a BIG yard), sat down, and read the scripture verses about the Lord's Supper, and they took communion together! It was so sweet!