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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
All You Need To Know About God
Hosea 11:1-11; Matthew 6:1-8
I had a recurring dream for several years, one of those troubling dreams that come without warning, certainly without invitation, and leave you without peace when you waken.
In the dream I'm about 12 or 14 years old, living in the apartment I grew up in on the second floor above my father's store. (He rented the space about four times during the 16 years we lived there, each time going out of business and into deeper debt.)
It's nighttime in my dream. Dad is not home. In fact, he hasn't been at home now for several days, maybe even weeks. I don't know where he is, why he's there, or if he's all right. I really don't know if he's alive or dead. Nobody in the family knows what has happened to my Dad.
As happens in dreams, I'm suddenly downstairs, out on the sidewalk in front of Dad's darkened store. I notice that the door to the store is not closed all the way. Curious and not a little afraid, I open the door and step into the darkness. By the door, I know, is a panel of light switches, and now I reach slowly to find the switch that will light the front area of the room, the place where Dad's desk sits empty. Or is it empty now? With fear and trembling, I reach to turn on the lights.
And then, as suddenly as it began, the dream ends.
That's the way the dream came and went for me, again and again and again.
Until one night, how and why that particular night I'll never know... Until one night it continued for just a few seconds more. And then this dream never came to me again.
Whenever I prepare to preach on the Lord's Prayer, those few short phrases Jesus gave his church that span the whole world of human joys and concerns... Every time I plan to preach about that prayer, I remember once again that haunting dream about my missing Dad.
Can you guess why? Do you want to know? Then please...
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posted by Jack Buckley at
11:48 AM
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