A Prophetic Dream: July 12, 2002 (3:15 a.m.)

Dream: There was more before this but I don’t remember it all. I’m tired and want to go back to sleep.

I get back from Ethiopia. Al.l is well. We have said hello to all of our frineds and all go separate ways home. I get to a house that is mine. As I unload the vehicle, I realize I had left my house key with a friend before I left. Without that key, I cannot get in. It is late. Idon’t want to wake anyone but I need in the house. I decide to walk to Leann Medders house. I figure I could use here pone to contact the person with my key. She lives only a few doors down.

As I walk down the street I see an enormous dog. I am a stranger to him. He barks and begins to chase me. I run. He’s too swift; he comes up from behind and bites, I think, my left hand. He won’t let go. I realize I can’t get away: I must fight this dog. I wrestle him to the ground. I’m on top of him. I discuss with myself out loud what I should do. It is so real at this point. Then it hits me; It was as if I had had a dream about this before (in the dream; I remember no such dream now). Based on the dream, I decide, “I have to kill you. You don’t deserve to live.” Feeling justified to do so, I struck the dog’s head against the street…repeatedly. I felt bad but justified. Then a bunch (three or four) neighborhood dogs came to see what was going on. I stood up over the first dog’s body and told them, “Go home, I am the biggest, you are small and insignificant, you are beatabnle and killable.”* They began to leave.

At this point, a few birds get involved. One was a cardinal, but I don’t remember what the other one was. I was angry with them, too…at least one of them. One was the mother of the other, though they both weren’t cardinals. I yelled at at least one and threw it. I think it was the mother beause the one I didn’t throw seemed to be relieved at being dismissed from her authority. This is the dream the best I can remember it. Now God grant me sleep. Amen.

*The words to the dogs are paraphrased. I don’t remember exactly what I said.