Last night was the second time in a month that I have had a dream about being up high somewhere, and walking across roof beams. This time, I was at some conference, and another person and I thought that we’d go to the balcony for the concert. Well, what we got to was, as it turned out, the open air roof. Kind of like an arbor, with boards laid across beams. We were on the left, but there was a guy on the right, who had traversed the boards, and was cautiously walking the beam toward the stage.
Just like before, the beams had no nets or hand rails.
I was walking across the boards, and got to the edge where it was just beams (that ran from the back toward the stage), and looked down and realized it was a long way down. A very, very long way down. Immediate stop. Looking over the edge, I knew there was no way Joe Suttle was going to walk or crawl out on that beam.
To compound all this, the board portion and beams had a downward slope toward the stage, so I was actually going down hill. Scary! Once I stopped, I had the guy behind me stop and pull me back, while I crawled backwards. There was no way I was going to try and turn around and crawl upward from the edge.
He pulled me back about 6 feet, and then we began the trek back to the stairs where we entered.
What’s funny is that once we got back to the stairs, we both commented on why anyone would build stairs to the roof of an auditorium, with the stairs being accessible to everybody.
What does this mean? You got me, but there has to be a message here, and I’m just not getting it. If you’ve got thoughts, this blog post is open for comments.
Well Joe, being that the stairs make the high place accessible to all, made me think of Christ making the reference to the wide and narrow gates. Many can enter in however, the narrow gate is not as easily traveled.
Then there is the high road, the narrow plank. Sometimes it is easy to get to the top, a place of distinction or responsibility and it can be seen as a great place to be until one begins to understand how far down you were before you got there and how quickly it can all crumble if you make the wrong move. We can build our lives and think we have come to a place of high regard or a place where we thing we have achieved our dreams in life, only to realize how easily all can be lost. One mistep and all is lost.
If you walked out on the plank alone you could have fallen…but ….a friend (maybe Christ) was there to bring you back to a safe place.
Well just my thoughts on the dream.