{"id":13577,"date":"2023-01-17T21:13:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T21:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13577"},"modified":"2023-01-17T21:13:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T21:13:35","slug":"net-mail-a-dream-damien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13577\/net-mail-a-dream-damien\/","title":{"rendered":"Net mail &#8211; A dream: Damien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">A few years ago after I returned from my trip to Australia in 2017, I had a simple dream with both of my parents in it.\u00a0 It reminds me in some ways of Brother Keith&#8217;s vision that he shared with us recently. It came to mind while I was talking with Kay early this morning.\u00a0 It seems good to pass it on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">In the dream, there was a long line of people who were shuffling silently, uphill it seemed, along a sidewalk.\u00a0 The path passed along the side of a featureless building.\u00a0 At the head of the line of people was a door in the building. The people turned right and went through the door.\u00a0 I noticed my father (he died in 1987) going through the door.\u00a0 Looking back down the line a ways, I saw my mother (now 94) shuffling along with everyone else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">When I awoke, I knew that I was looking at people&#8217;s lives passing.\u00a0 The door is the end.\u00a0 As I thought about it this morning, it really hit me that everyone is going through that door.\u00a0 I was in that line of people.\u00a0 We all were.\u00a0 Life is serious business.\u00a0 We need God&#8217;s help.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Damien<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>Amen, Damien.\u00a0 And if we think on that, we are wise (cf. Eccl. 7:2-4).\u00a0 Moses prayed that God would teach him to soberly think on that reality so that he might apply his heart to wisdom (Ps. 90:12).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, A few years ago after I returned from my trip to Australia in 2017, I had a simple dream with both of my parents in it.\u00a0 It reminds me in some ways of Brother Keith&#8217;s vision that he shared with us recently. It came to mind while I was talking with Kay early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}