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Canoe in the Bethesda Pool
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Visions Dreams Precognition Etc
In a dream, the writer
saw a canoe full of Christians
in a Bethesda healing pool
which was as large as the average
swimming pool. They had the
canoe full of tapes to take
to those on the other side
of the pool.
Analysis:
1st impression: a waste of energy
to use a canoe rather than
walking around the pool
2nd impression: The Bethesda Pool
heals by immersion after
an angel stirs the waters.
This experience is given by
contact with the water, not
through tapes.
Better analysis: the boat represents the church in pilgrimage, much as it did in Andrew Marvell's great poem, "bermudas". The crossing of the water, the miraculous water, represents both the shortest route (rather than a walk around), and a voyaging out in faith (this from Matthew's account of Peter's attempted walk upon the water of Lake Galilee). The tapes are testimonies or gifts of faith with which the pilgrims hope to bless those who are spiritually ill and need the miracle of the water. The suggested walk-around is an avoidance of the direct demands of faith; and the statement disaparaging the tapes in favor of a miraculous cure is not spiritually accurate, as the tapes represent testimony to the Gospel without which one cannot be spiritually healed.
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