A night filled with visions

The other night Jesus was with me in my dreams.

We were driving down the road to pick up my five year old from pre-school.

Jesus was quiet, and he was staring intently out the car window, as if entranced by the trees which seemed to bow before us as we drove through the noisy mid-day traffic.

"So Jesus," I say, "whatcha thinking?"

He turns to look at me with an odd smile on his lips. "I'm just thinking about what a beautiful drive this is today."

"Uhhh yeah, sure it is." I replied not quite sure what to say next.

"No really, " Jesus says, "It's beautiful."

"Ooookaaay." I reply slowly. I mean what's Jesus really thinking? After all, it's not all that beautiful driving down Broadway Street...

I sensed somehow that Jesus was mildly frustrated by my reply (and attitude).

After a brief pause, Jesus quietly says to me:

"Jerri, your Father and I have placed you here, smack dab in the Kingdom of God, yet you will not open the eyes of your own soul to see. You have not lived until you experience the beauty of what is."

When I turned to answer him, Jesus was gone.

I was alone and driving under a canopy of bowing trees...

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I had another Jesus dream too; but I think that I need to quietly and tenderly "be" with this dream before I share it with all of you. I won't say too much more except that this other dream was also about blindness, vision and the Kingdom of God.

What a strange and lovely thing it is to have experienced a night filled with visions.

Even now, as I sit here typing, I am still slightly awed....

...so much so, that I can only wonder at what the day shall hold!