I had the weirdest dreams this last night. I posted a little bit about it on facebook, but thought I would share it here also.
It started off, as I remember, with me as a child again in elementary school, except I didn't recognize the teacher or students. We were reading
The Wind in the Willows, and I complained, "But I know this story already," so I turned in an old copy of the homework assignment. Except the book was different because the author's name was a different one in Arabic and in the middle of it was information on a murder in Australia.
So then I was an adult again, and some friends and I were on a farm where we had brought the farmer a mythical creature (I think it was a griffin), and we met a kitten.
Then this guy and girl I know and myself got a house together, and kitten came to live with us, except now she was older. We named the cat after my deceased cat, who coincidentally had the same name as a female friend of mine. Then the cat turned into a little girl who appeared about 3 or 4 years old and slightly resembled a woman I have a crush on.
The little girl asked me to explain God to her and told me that someone had said, "He's the big guy in the sky," so she thought God was the giant from Jack in the Beanstalk. I was trying to think of an explanation when she started choking, which scared me, so I opened her mouth and pulled out a map.
I don't know what any of that was supposed to mean
I dont know what it all means either.
The last paragraph in particular strikes a chord.
A child innocently asking a question that grownups can barely answer for themselves.
But before you can answer the child chokes on an obstruction- that you fish it out of her mouth that turns out to be a map.
Could be taken as a metaphor for education. We cant give the next generation the answers- only the tools to navigate to their own conclusions.
Or maybe the child is you. you're stopped ( "choked") by something that could be the very thing that proves to be your salvation ( a treasure map so to speak).