feet in the water...

What an amazing wake-up you gave me, my love! What a dream you had! Here is the reference that I mentioned to you. I told you I was given a vision some time ago of you being designated as a priest, and now you dream yet again a confirmation of that assignment. First you dreamed it when you saw the blue waters in the twin pools, and now this one. When you gasped as you woke, did you realize the first words out of your mouth were, "I think I just saw Christ in my dream!"? I know you saw Him...for the two things that were most residual upon you from the experience were your being overwhelmed, weak from the experience, and your being so moved with love that all you could do was hold me and profess how profound was the love you felt for me.

When you said you and He rode horses through a pool of water that was either the start or the finish of a river, you couldn't tell (I think because maybe somehow it was both...yes, that is it) the waters that got your feet wet as you rode through then, they were so cold they woke you. Now here is the scripture that comes to my mind to give you in association with that dream. It is in Joshua. When the time came that God's people were to stop their nomadic existence in the wilderness and enter the land He had prepared for them (quite a parallel to the walk we Christians make as strangers in a strange land now) the first move was to cross the Jordan river. Two impossible water crossings: one being the Red Sea when the people were first leaving slavery in Egypt, (Christ's first coming to the earth from heaven foreshadowed in that one) then this one, when they were to enter the land of Promise. Joshua 3 says this: "...giving these instructions to the people, [from God] 'When you see the priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord your God, move out from your positions and follow them. Since you have never traveled this way before, they will guide you...the Lord told Joshua, 'Today I will begin to make you a great leader in the eyes of all the Israelites. They will know I am with you, just as I was with Moses.' ...The priests will carry the Ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth. As soon as their feet touch the water, the flow of water will be cut off upstream, and the river will stand up like a wall.'...As soon as the feet of the priests who were carrying the Ark touched the water at the river's edge, the water above that point began backing up a great distance away...the priests who were carrying the Ark stood in the middle of the river until all of the Lord's commands that Moses had given Joshua were carried out. Meanwhile the people hurried across the river bed...that day the Lord made Joshua a great leader in the eyes of all the Israelites, and for the rest of his life they revered him as they had revered Moses..." You woke before you were out of the water, my love. According to this, you will go into the water to facilitate a miraculous sign. More and more I believe a Joshua will be shown to have the power of the Lord with him as a result of your obedient and fearless act. After this is accomplished, you will be commanded to exit the river on the other side, and it will again close up so that the miraculous passage from the land of wandering to the land of rest is closed again. Are there any other priests? Will we meet them? It is to be as a testament to God, for in the original event it is said that the people will look to the place of passage, as marked by a stone memorial, and say "He [God] did this so all the nations of the earth might know that the Lord's hand is powerful, and so that you might fear the Lord your God forever."
By the way, this is written to have happened on "the tenth day of the first month" which was by a lunar calendar that we approximate to correspond to a date somewhere between late March and early May. Personally, I wonder if this very day is not the anniversary of it.

What a wonder it is to me to see you having the same reaction I did to His making an appearance in a dream. At first all you can do is weep at the power and majesty that comes so near to you. You didn't want to go play drums at church today because you didn't feel like you could get up and do anything after that dream. I pray that you found the strength to go again into the "real" world and function. And I pray for us both now this prayer of Paul's. It's found in Ephesians: "And pray for me, too. Ask Go to give me the right words so I can boldly explain the mystery of the Good News." May our faith-friends be inspired to lift such a prayer for us. And may He indeed lead us to "them" as He told you He would do. Do not fear the responsibility He has laid at your feet, no pun intended. He will take you...He will take us both...through it all. He told you He'd take care of us both. We must believe that, and move toward the water...you for the reasons He gave you and me for mine, and together they will accomplish His purpose. I love you.