Last night I dreamt I was at the church I grew up in. (Let me remind all you faithful readers... that I dream about this church at least once a week!) I went into the sanctuary to listen to the sermon. The man giving the sermon used to be the pastor there.. but now he lives in another part of the state. He was laying out the importance of reaching the college campus. So of course I was so excited! I was thinking he was going to encourage everyone to join my support team. But as the sermon came to a close he announced that the church was going to go through a very difficult complicated process to team up with some ministry in Indiana...it was going to take several months to get it started. I was really disappointed! Didn't they know they could very easily support me? right now! here in Alabama?? I was really sad.. so I went to the pastor's office and asked him those things... he was beating around the bush, dodging my questions.. so I looked him in the eye and said "Tell me straight up. Do you plan on ever joining my support team?" ... he looked at me with a straight face and said "No."
So, I started sobbing (my dream self is so much more emotional than my real self...). I started telling him how hurt I was over that... This was my home church, for goodness sake! I have other churches who are supportive of me! They should be supportive too! Didn't they know that they meant something to me? Did I not matter to them??
That's all I remember.
[Side note: United Methodist preachers get moved around every few years... so I had a handful of preachers that could have played that part in my dream...]
But... (cue the twilight zone music)...
I got an e-mail this afternoon that said that THAT very same preacher joined my support team.
what do you think? weird? coincidence?
til next time!
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