HEAVEN
I had the sweetest experience this week in a dream. Dreams are so subjective & therefore meaningless, I think, in sharing with others that I hesitate to even try. However, I have something of value to share with those who have ears willing to hear.
They say that 'everyone' you encounter in a dream is really just a facet of your personality, but I say, how can a dream evolve if all the actors are just you? It would be impossible to have a dream without interaction to move the story along! The story line isn't important in this dream, but I hope to be able to convey the message and the feeling my dream.
I found myself outside in a place of huge, natural beauty, similar to the Pacific Northwest but magnificent in beauty beyond description. There was much construction activity all around me. I, myself, was 'shopping' for items to give to my daughter for her new home. However the setting, while opulent, was outside! I found a lovely inlaid lamp table, several fine china serving platters and fine crystal flutes. I was assured by the lady who helped me, and adored all that I had bought(?), that they would be delivered to my daughter's new home. I was then walking about this massive construction site (still all magnificent & huge) on my way to my daughter's to enjoy the new gifts & view her new home. Some of my extended family members & I were walking alongside a flowing creek as we carefully picked our way through the construction to my daughter's home.
I first experienced the home from the interior. The walls I saw were constructed of red brick, but laid in a curving, fairy-tale like way. It reminded me of the homes lived in by the Hobbits in The Lord of the Ring, or Kincaid paintings, but a LOT more spacious! Now that I think about it, it seemed alot like a Kincaid painting, but the home and the surrounding scenery were ginormous!
We all then found ourselves outside gazing at the scenery all around us, in this woodsy, watery, mountainous, BEAUTIFUL place. And everyone there (as there were small crowds of people about) were all singing the same song. I realized that the whole time I had been in this dream, that all the people in the background were singing the same song all the time. It's melody was simple and I only heard one phrase being sung over and over again, "We just left yesterday. We just left yesterday!" That is when I realized the full import of the dream. I HAVE NEVER FELT SUCH PEACE & JOY AS I FELT IN THIS PLACE. And everyone there was so overjoyed to be BACK, that the song in their hearts was, 'We just left yesterday!' It seemed to mean that we were NOW back to a place that we had left only the day before, but now we all returned to the place from which we all came-a place where we belonged-home.
How does one describe a feeling? Love, peace & joy literally FLOWED through this place & through everyone's heart. I woke up literally singing the song. I even woke up Tony and tried to tell him about the experience and sing him the song! Even with my sorry singing voice, I could repeat it perfectly, for the music pitched up on the second phrase to make it slightly different from the first. I can remember now, days later, but as dreams often fade, I don't know how long I will be able to hear the tune and repeat it?
I prayed to ask my Heavenly Father if I had experienced a little piece of Heaven and He confirmed to me that I had. I was in a place of beauty with my loved ones where love constantly, naturally, flowed unheeded.
It was an experience of blessing. I will pray that I can regain that same sense of Heavenly existence at will in the future.
The question that had been flowing through my mind weeks previous to this experience was, "I wonder what Heaven looks like?" I have an answer that was even better than my question---now I know what Heaven feels like! I want to go there with all my loved ones. I look forward to us all sharing this wonderful place one fine day.
Merry Christmas!
