Thursday 31 October 2013

Dreams and Giraffes!


I would never be confessing to the following dream but for the fact that since I had it I have been seeing giraffes everywhere!

A month or so ago I was mystified on waking up from a deep sleep to recall  having had the following peculiar dream.  I was leading a giraffe on a piece of string! Most of the dream was taken up with me walking around with it trying to find a building tall enough for us to go in. Eventually I found some warehouse structure and found a room with a tall enough ceiling. The giraffe then proceeded to reach up and started trying to eat the electric lights.

Bizarre I know!

When giraffes started being pasted on Facebook I began to wonder if maybe there was a message in the dream.  I pondered the significance and even 'fessed up by commenting on a thread about giraffes. Some commented on the fact that my heart and focus is with children - this next generation and that maybe the giraffe was symbolic of this ministry. They felt there were few places ready or with a high enough 'ceiling' to be able to accommodate what this might look like.

Yesterday I FINALLY discovered that there has been a riddle going on around FB. For the uninitiated it is as follows.

"It's 3 am and the doorbell wakes you up. Unexpected visitors, it's your parents and they are there for breakfast. You have strawberry jam, honey, wine, bread and cheese. What is the first thing you open?"

Apparently - if you get the answer wrong you are supposed to post a picture of a giraffe as your facebook status.  The 'right' answer is supposed to be 'the door'.

Due to the mystery of the dream and now this 'riddle' I pondered some more and was reminded that Jesus loved to talk in parables and riddles too. Suddenly I thought of the verse in revelation where He says 'Behold I stand at the door and knock'.  It struck me that many of us are so busy in ministry getting ready and often doing things for Jesus that we forget to open the door to Him first.

Thus my dream interpretation continues.  Maybe I've been getting it wrong and been so busy concentrating on the 'giraffe' the 'minstry/ the food on the table' that I've omitted to open the door to the one who it's all about.

And after that bomb shell .......... I await my next dream - Apparently the person who did the riddle is going to post one every Saturday - maybe next time I blog I will have dreamt of hippo's and flying pink saucers......sometimes best not to take yourself too seriously;-)