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<\/a>Jacob\u2019s Dream<\/span>, Ferdinand Bol c.1642<\/p>\n
I was in the most beautiful church I\u2019ve ever seen. It was an Orthodox Church with every inch decorated in iconography. The air was heavy with incense, it was so thick I swear I could still smell it when I first woke. The Liturgy was being chanted and it sounded like a choir of heavenly male angels humming and droning. The church was packed and a great procession was beginning. When I turned to look at the ornately decorated priests, deacons and servers processing in and I glanced around at the other congregants. <\/p>\n
Everyone looked distorted and twisted, angular jutting jaws and hunched shoulders. The scene surrounding me was a disjointed jumble of bodies committing various acts of sins\u2026the couple standing directly behind me were groping and kissing each other passionately, a man was screaming into his cell phone, a group of teenage girls dressed like hookers were shouting obscenities, a little kid covered in dirt was picking the pocket of an elderly man praying, and two inebriated Orthodox priests were having a fist fight and knocking over candles in the back of the church.<\/p>\n
However as disturbing as the surrounding scene was I still felt calm and at peace. The surrounding scene did not shock or anger me. I can\u2019t explain what I felt as I was in the deepest part of this dream. I felt detached from myself as if I was only watching a scene from a movie that I happened to be in. <\/p>\n
There was so much chaos going on within this church\u2026 yet it still seem completely normal. No one admonished the ill acting congregation, not even the pious priests processing in. <\/p>\n
This is the Church\u2026 the good, bad and ugly. Literally. <\/p>\n
As I began waking up I desperately felt I had<\/span> to remember the last thing I seeing\u2026 a single ray of light streaming from an open window and twisting in the incense smoke to land squarely on a young red bearded priest during the Entry of the Holy Gifts. I sat in my bed for a few minutes while the Cherubic Hymn still rung in my ears.<\/p>\n \u2026 a good night sleep for me is a dreamless one. I\u2019m plagued by vivid dreams. Last night was a doozy. I\u2019ll leave it up to you to decipher its meaning. Jacob\u2019s Dream, Ferdinand Bol c.1642 I was in the most beautiful church I\u2019ve ever seen. It was an Orthodox Church with every inch decorated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/18613340-4095447983189341321?l=thecrescat.blogspot.com\")