A Distant Journey

This morning I awoke exhausted and emotionally drawn from a distant journey, one I took without ever physically leaving my bed.

This dream was timeless within this life but in part by the interplay with the other people, some of it took place in 1962 when I was 17 and graduating from high school.

I was with a group of other people, most of whom I today at age 69 have not known in this life. But my impression is that as a group of spiritual beings we came into this life, this dimension together.

From our discussion, some of which was on the green grass of a football field, and from a handwritten sheet, we were speaking of things we were meant to accomplish in this life. Among the list of objectives for my life, I was supposed to become a writer which I have done.

As we compared notes of what we were meant to accomplish seemingly now past tense, I wondered if this would now be the end of my current life in this dimension, but it was not so, and I did return at the end of this dream.

The lives of the other spiritual beings were of interest to me as well and they too had not attained all they were meant to and in most cases, if not in all cases, their lives too would continue.

As the dream came to end, a beautiful young 17 year old woman said to my 17 year old self, "Watch what I can do with this ball," as she took a brown ball similar to a soccer ball and kicked it high and far.

I watched the ball sail in the air and replied to her, "Because of injuries I incurred later in life, I can't do that," as I recalled from the written list I was to be athletic in this life.

This had happened primarily through my body building, which had also become the cause of my significant injuries. Yet I realize body building had been something I was destined to do.

During this dream I was aware of Anne, my wife of nearly 49 years, but she was not among the spiritual beings nor specifically on the list, yet I knew our relationship had been meant to be.

It was wonderful to awaken next to Anne. My life could have ended during the dream, perhaps subsequently appearing to others in body as a stroke, but it was not yet my time.

What remains on my list will be revealed to me as I continue to strive for a higher awareness, so that I might fulfill that list.

I believe it is part of my personal growth in fulfilling karmic needs, and in being of service to others as they proceed down their life's path in search of growth, for we are all spirits in search of growth, as I have been informed in years past during prayer.

Dick