Saturday, April 03, 1999

Jesus Quest And The Post Of 121

I was in a place that looked much like the dairy barn back at home (the upstairs part) and I was doing something that I had been told to do by following clues or something of some sort. When I accomplished whatever it was for this particular clue, another one appeared in writing, and I think it even "read itself" to me. It was telling me that I had to "just go to 121", meaning marker 121 along the river. (Although I don't know which river... just THE river)

So I was suddenly outside, and I was looking at some sort of map to see where 121 was, thinking that I wouldn't have to go far. I didn't see it on the map where I thought it should have been, so I just hopped into the river and started to float downstream.

Another guy was there somewhere and was telling me that the only time the water gets rough is when you have to go over more than 3 or 4 rocks. Soon after that, I saw some rough looking places approaching, and so I just went down the middle of them, knowing that would be the smoothest part of the rapids. I kept floating along (kind of on my stomach) and watching off to my right to look for marker post number 121, but I didn't see it.

As I got down towards the end of the river, I saw where it branched off to my right at a 90 degree angle, and then right ahead of me was some sort of hotel. (Into which the river flowed) So I ended up going into the hotel and looking around in there.

I saw Dot (from Merillat) in there and talked to her briefly about the quest and then just some chatter, and when I found out that she didn't know where 121 was, I headed out on my way. I walked all around through the hotel, across balconies and up an down huge winding stair ways. I ran into a second person and asked them if they knew about 121, and they didn't know where it was, either. I then went back outside to the river and looked around. I jumped back in and started heading back up, and then when I came to the 90 degree branching point, I went off on that. I looked at my map again, and saw that it looked like this:








The "start" is where I started my original float down the river. There were several numbers marked between start and the hotel, but I don't remember them or the messed up order they were in. So, when I left the hotel, I went up where the river did that funky number, and then I ended up right next to the dock and found a white post with 121 painted in black on it.

When I got there, I was taken into the dock (into?) and it was like a huge church (again). I was standing there behind where the preacher would stand, and I was in this little hall way. Jesus was standing there with me, and I knew that he had me going on this quest to do this stuff. When I looked out to the sanctuary, I saw people practicing for a play or choral performance, and it seems to me that several of them were dressed in winter coats with hoods and such. Jesus told me that the next part was to invite them all over and serve them hot chocolate and fish. (I think) Then he disappeared.

For some reason I didn't invite them to my place for that stuff, but I never really ended up going back there, either, I don't think. Even though I didn't do so, I wasn't very worried about not completing the quest. The dream almost ended there, anyway. But there was one thing that I noticed, and that was that Jesus didn't have this personality of being super mellow and super proper. He just seemed "normal" He was relaxed, but joked around and showed emotion. (which he doesn't seem to do that very much in the "big book") As an example, at one point I either said or did something that made him kind of slap is forehead and then lower his head into his hand and shake his head, kind of giving off a sense of "Doh!"

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