(Tim) If you've read Augustine's Confessions you'll remember his debating the moral status of dreams. Fascinating part of one of the best books I've ever read. More Post-It notes stick out of my copy of the Confessions than any other book in my library, whatever that tells you.
Speaking of dreams, here's a shocker: As best I can tell, a dear friend of mine went to sleep an unbeliever, had a dream, and awoke to find childlike faith in Jesus Christ at the center of a heart that, prior to bedtime, had been vegan, feminist, pro-abort, hardshell, God-hating. Actually, as I think of it, I know two souls who, when they became believers, recounted dreams that had been the critical step in coming to faith.
Speaking of dreams, again, my present wife is the most wonderful wife I've ever had. That's a pic of us with our eldest, Heather, outside married student housing at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary back in about 1981 or so...
I praise God for His kindness to me in providing dear Mary Lee for me, our children and grandchildren, and all the loved ones in our congregations. One of the many ways my wife loves me is her constant work for others, but that work comes at a cost. What cost?
About one in the morning last night, I was shocked to receive an e-mail from her--I was still at the church finishing up a large project and she's an early-to-bedder. You may enjoy it as much as I did. Seminarians, here's a true picture of the life of a pastor's wife. (It would help to know the individuals Mary Lee here names, but you'll still get the point.)
After a day with 3 meetings at church...
We had been planning for some time to do a Saturday workshop on something. When the day arrived, I drove over to church, only to realize I had left the DVD at home. Anne Wegener was the only other person there so she was going to drive home with me. I waited and waited for her to come out but she did not seem to understand the hurry we were in.
When she finally came out and we got started, we took a short cut that led us through some woods where trees were so close together we could barely get the car through. We finally got back to church and there was a room full of women waiting. I then remembered I wanted to serve coffee, so I went to the kitchen. On my way back to the room, I got lost. Dave Curell had apparently put a large addition on the church and there were all kinds of other activities going on in many rooms. I went around and around looking for the room where our seminar was being held. I was getting more and more frantic running through the church when I woke up... :-|
