Old Men’s Dreams

When I was a young man I learned Joel 2:28 which talks about old men dreaming.  I used to wonder what old men dreamed about.   The context of Joel referred to the Holy Spirit and prophecy.  Now that I am officially an old man (I receive Social Security) I now dream old-man dreams.  For me they aren’t prophetic and not worth telling others.  As a matter of fact I am usually put off when people want to tell me about their dreams.  So I will not put you off by telling you of mine other than they are wonderful because I often see and hear my boys when they were small.   I hear their little boy voices, not their man voices.  Sometimes my parents appear.   When night comes I am anxious to know who I will visit in my dreams before the dawn comes.

The human mind is a wonderful treasure chest of places and people.  It is sad that often when we are awake we have difficulty recalling people and events.  It is all there.  All the places, people and things we have seen and done are housed in that amazing piece of gray matter.   It is no wonder Scripture tells us to think about good things.  If we read good things, watch good things, listen to good things we fill our minds with treasures. Our minds are better than photo albums because they store action and sound.

I know people who take very good care of their bodies.  They take vitamins. They exercise.  They eat right.  But they are careless with their brains. They dump all manner of trash into them.  Somehow that doesn’t make sense. There is an old saying that we are what we eat.   I think we are what we behold.

Written by Roger Bothwell on May 19, 2009

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