I had a dream:
There is a huge waterfall. I am looking up at the oceans of water coming over the edge of the cliff. The water explodes at the bottom, the impact of which creates all kinds of noise, mist and turbulence. The water spreads over the landscape, completely covering everything. Then I heard a voice say:
This waterfall is a picture of God. You cannot see above the edge of the cliff. The Source is there but you cannot perceive it. It is infinite and therefore beyond the finite mind to grasp. The water falling and hitting the earth is the Incarnation. God emptied himself and became one with all flesh. The water spreading out over the landscape and covering all things is the Spirit, that has accomplished the purpose of the Incarnation.
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That’s a great image… thanks for sharing this!
Alden: disturbing because it crashes my categories.
That is exactly why I don’t eat after 9:00PM…
Wow, nifty dream.
Totality! “I Am.”
Somebody in our church had a vision about a year ago that was very similar to that.
… sounds apocalyptic. are you familiar with the Mayan ‘prophesies’? The “2012 catastrophe”?
right on. cool dream. thanks for sharing. mine are more prosaic, so I appreciate the powerful dreams of others!
Amazing stuff. Reminds me of the river flower from the temple passage in Ezekiel 47.
I have long held the view that water is the perfect analogy of God :c)
“….disturbing because it crashes my categories”(NP)….I’m surprised David,the dream seems quite orthodox,unless that is the ‘categorical issue’.
Jason…….”apocalyptic”?????????….hardly,unless yr aquaphobic
fif: here’s what’s crashing about it: we can’t see or know the infinite and almighty “God”. That God is no longer “up there” but incarnated. And that the Spirit (of Jesus) has covered and reconciled all flesh.
NP:…… “crashing’?…in the sense that God has come closer…nearer…in pursuit maybe?
Cool stuff.
As we say down south, “That’ll preach!”
why David how very “The Shack” of you! Mr. Young would be proud
I was just looking through some of your latest blogs to see what I’ve missed and saw this one.
It really comforted me – the thought that god’s spirit is so close.
Thanks.
Hi David.
thank you for this image. With your permission – and appropriate acknowledgement – I would like to use this in my teaching tomorrow with my congregation.
Pete
Be my guest Pete. I dare you to tell people which blog you got it from!
That’s amazing! You should paint it or something. I sometimes write poems about my dreams.
I had a dream once in which I asked the Archbishop of Canterbury, ‘Why is the baptismal font by the exit of the church?’ (of course it’s by the entrance, but that’s the exit as well)
He answered, ‘Because of the cycles of birth and death.’