Dream (Jim)
Dreams 01/04/2006
Wednesday, January 4th, 2006 - (Miraculous)
“The Three Preachers”
A fundamentalist preacher is both sneered at and envied, by a Catholic priest and an MCC minister.
The fundamentalist preacher stands in the very kitchen of his converts life, a room in which we, three times a day, appease one of our most basic needs, to eat. So the fundamentalist is intimately involved in the preparation, planning and dicing and seasoning and searing, of the sustenance for the converts needs, be they relational, financial or spiritual. They together make the difficult changes the convert needs to make for themself.
The other two preachers envy the fundamentalist because he’s at the molten core of their calling with another, but they sneer because he’ll be burned up by it, since he’s far too close, with barely any distinction between himself and the convert.
I usually view fundamentalists as right in spirit but as out of context. The context it was meant for has no bearing on intent or message for them, it’s all about them and about now, as if other times and other people are all alike, with no distinctions, and no separation. Out of context can be abhorrently wrong, however.
Out of context, and with no distinction between self and other, I certainly can dole out all power till depleted, and powerless. As such, I think the dream is a warning, to not lose myself to other, indiscriminately.
How am I the three preachers? I sympathize with all three perspectives, the insiders thrill, the outsiders envy, and the sneer. Perhaps the three types of preachers also represent two progressions, similar to my own path, from most rigid, to most liberal, and from the early all-consuming thrill, to the middle time away, to now a more discriminating time.
Wednesday, January 4th, 2006 - (Miraculous)
“The Three Preachers”
A fundamentalist preacher is both sneered at and envied, by a Catholic priest and an MCC minister.
The fundamentalist preacher stands in the very kitchen of his converts life, a room in which we, three times a day, appease one of our most basic needs, to eat. So the fundamentalist is intimately involved in the preparation, planning and dicing and seasoning and searing, of the sustenance for the converts needs, be they relational, financial or spiritual. They together make the difficult changes the convert needs to make for themself.
The other two preachers envy the fundamentalist because he’s at the molten core of their calling with another, but they sneer because he’ll be burned up by it, since he’s far too close, with barely any distinction between himself and the convert.
I usually view fundamentalists as right in spirit but as out of context. The context it was meant for has no bearing on intent or message for them, it’s all about them and about now, as if other times and other people are all alike, with no distinctions, and no separation. Out of context can be abhorrently wrong, however.
Out of context, and with no distinction between self and other, I certainly can dole out all power till depleted, and powerless. As such, I think the dream is a warning, to not lose myself to other, indiscriminately.
How am I the three preachers? I sympathize with all three perspectives, the insiders thrill, the outsiders envy, and the sneer. Perhaps the three types of preachers also represent two progressions, similar to my own path, from most rigid, to most liberal, and from the early all-consuming thrill, to the middle time away, to now a more discriminating time.
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