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 Today's Readings
Last night I had a weird but powerful dream. I was with an old priest (Fr. Jim Reuter, the famous columnist and playwright, no less!) and a friend from high school. For reasons I don't remember, we decided to pray together. When it was my turn, I closed my eyes dutifully and prayed. All I remember is beginning the prayer with "Dear Lord..." and then it happened.
My eyes burned with tears as I found myself praying in a way that I had been unable to pray in a very long time. When I woke up, I lay in bed shaken and disoriented, my heart pounding, until I slowly realized it had all just been a dream. I felt both disappointed and grateful. Disappointed because I hadn't experienced something so intensely spiritual for a while now. But grateful because somehow, even as I lay there staring at the ceiling, there was no doubt in my mind that my dream was an authentic experience of the Sacred.
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