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I dreamed of a young woman that decided to walk with me. I found my sports car on the side of the road and was able to drive it to a parking lot where they had gas, but didn't sell it to the public. They had a gas can that I could use to walk to the nearest gas station. I asked her to walk with me and as we walked, she aged but was still very beautiful. She was an ice skater, but had long ago given that up. We talked a lot on the way. Along the way, the sports car aged also, until it was just a wind up car with little power and speed. The journey took us through many towns and states. Near the gas station, she had her car. An old sedan. As she got her car up and running, I took a walk by myself. I found myself in vintage streets and old houses from my childhood. I saved an old man that was a friend from an age long gone that was sleeping in his bed. A sinkhole had opened beneath his house. The old man and I walked a little until we came to a mountain that had a home built into the bottom of it and I told him to stop and I looked for an old picture of us as young men in the rafters. As I looked, the roof of the structure started to buckle under the weight of the mountain. I told him to escape. I held the roof up as long as I could until he got out of the way. Finally, I could hold the roof no more and it collapsed and squashed me. As it fell, I could see myself. I was dirty and beaten. My teeth were missing and my flesh was barely able to hold on. Beneath the rubble, my bones quickly revealed themselves and became "dry". Still I crawled away... I walked past a graveyard and through a broken looking glass, I could see the beautifully aged woman from a great distance. She was there waiting for me. And I awoke.

In the bible what are dry bones? Bones that have long awaited discovery. In the bible the Lord reveals a prophecy of raising an army of dry bones. I believe that my life has taken me on a long journey. A journey that slowly wore me down until finally I was the dry bones and the Lord resurrected me into His glory.

I once was an innocent child. But that ended quickly. I was subjected to other's acts of sexuality and bullies. I was protected as best as possible by my father. He didn't know about the things that I was experiencing. Name calling, bullying, molestation, being heavyset and constantly being lead further and further away from the Lord and the innocence He let me briefly experience.

No longer under the care of my earthly father, I was sent out into the world alone. I neglected my health and my teeth slowly rotted. I gained more weight and didn't go to college. I was left to support myself and had only the friends that I could go out and find. "Friends" that accepted me for who they thought I was. Desperately searching for someone who would let me love them and love me in return. I was shown a world of "black and white". Until finally, a woman, beautiful and pure, found me and desired to help me heal as much as I desired to be healed by her. My heart and emotions blossomed into full color and I slowly healed. But the damage that had been done in my youth could only be healed by the Lord. He could have healed me all at once, but that would have destroyed me. So, he took His time and slowly He formed me into a man worthy of the woman that I loved and that loved me. Regrowing me was painful and I was resistant. Still, He heals me and grows me. Amen to that.