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“ON FLYING HIGH AND COMING BACK DOWN”

On April 17, 2018 by Dteb With 0 Comments - down to earth believer

So, I was sitting outside on a couch with a lady.  (I trust that it was my sweetheart—a.k.a. my wife.)  It was a windy day.  Suddenly the wind picked up the couch we were sitting on, and lifted us clean off the ground.

I wasn’t scared.  Exhilarated, but not scared.

We kept catching updrafts and got higher and higher.  I thought, “Well, we don’t have any way of navigating, so we’ll just land wherever the wind takes us.”

Eventually, we came to rest on the ground.  It was a fairly smooth landing.  However, the people were speaking a language I couldn’t make out.  I figured that we were somewhere in Eastern Europe.

“I think we’ll have to travel back home in a more conventional manner,” I said to the lady I was with.  “It will take longer,” I added.

Here endeth the dream.

As you can see, I either am on drugs, or I don’t need them.  The latter is true.  I don’t really need them.  My mind is a trip in and of itself.  And, of course, probably everyone has wild dreams at times.

But this dream does seem to me to have a serious point.  I know that I am getting older, and I think that I am getting less set in my ways, more able to fly, these days.  Yes, I know that old people are not generally known for their flexibility.  I seem to be bucking the trend on this.  I am more flexible these days, more prone to go with the flow, to catch the updrafts of the Holy Spirit.  Even when I have no way to navigate, I enjoy the journey.

Perhaps the Serenity Prayer is beginning to be answered.  Perhaps I am realizing that I am really not in control, and that this is very good news.  Perhaps I’m doing a bit better at letting God be God.

Whether I can let God be God and live out the Serenity Prayer from a couch is, however, quite debatable.  I’ve heard of flying carpets, but I very skeptical about flying couches.

And in any case, going home could take some effort on my part.

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