Friday March 7, 2014 Todd probably has it right: He insists I need a ‘Pre frontal lobotomy.’ (Extensive brain surgery which is now seldom used!) The problem is that you have to have sufficient brain to, oh heck, anyway, you know… Why that? To share with you that we had a little Ash Wednesday service in the chapel just down the hall from our room. In all, we had Ash Wed prayers for fourteen good folks. Maybe the idea wasn’t so crazy after all. This morning we received word that a good meal, fine crowd, helpful sermon, and special music blessed our annual Wells-Aldersgate services. Thanks Dwight and group for a good kick off for Lent 2014. I’m having to take pain medicine. It makes me have the most awful dreams! I mean totally Crazy (Is Todd right?!). In prayer time last night, I asked if there were to be such dreams, could they have some redemptive aspect somewhere? That prayer was answered, but how? Wow! We were on some horrible waterfront. Everything tall, dark, jammed, smelly, loud. No matter which way you moved, there were threats, gunshots, a sense of defeat and fear all around. Some where in all that-- a voice called out “Is there anyone that would not use me? Any who will not take advantage?” The voice was female, and I knew her ‘profession’ immediately. I walked up steel stairs into a large room where a lady lay covered with a sheet, so that beauty, or the opposite was unseen. Her man friend said, “She was Asian something…” This slouchy man friend, who though he used her, loved her. At this time in the dream, Ricky appears and asks who owns all of these huge waterfront buildings. The woman replies, “I do.” The dream ends with Ricky setting up a dock rental corporation called Asian American Services Unlimited, and each person in the dream had a major positive change in their lives. Crazy. But ‘with redemption.’ Wonder about tonight? What we hoped to be a 23-hour hospital stay has now become “buying shares in the hospital!” We’ll be here at least one more day. It’s all, after all, ‘one day at the time anyway isn’t it?’ Keep your ‘slow but go’ prayers coming. because slowly each day, the wound is closing. A couple of other staff people have asked about the Ash Wednesday prayer---could they too, even if late? We know the answer to that one don’t we? So tired…to bed for now… Always love, always, Keith
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:01:55 +0000
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