JULY 2,2003
THE LION THE CLOTH REMNANTS AND THE
COAT OF MANY COLORS
IT ALL STARTED WITH ME WALKING IN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FOREST LOOKING AT ALL THE TREES AND PLANTS AND THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WATERFALL I HAVE EVER SEEN..FOR
IT LOOKED LIKE A LIQUID RAINBOW I HAVE NEVER SEEN A WATERFALL LIKE THAT FOR IT LOOKED ALIVE.. I WAS STANDING THERE LOOKING AT IT WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN I
HEARD THIS ENORMOUS CRASH..LIKE THE CRASHING OF THUNDER AND IT STARTLED ME..I THEN LOOKED IN THE DIRECTION IT WAS COMING FROM AND THEN I SEEN A DOVE
APPEARING AND IT WAS DECENDING WITH A ROLLED UP PIECE OF PARCHMENT IN ITS MOUTH AND IT WAS TIED WITH A PURPLE RIBBON THAT SEEMED TO FORM A CROWN FROM THE SHAPE
OF ITS RIBBON..THE DOVE FLEW DOWN TOWARDS ME AND DROPPED THE ROLLED UP PARCHMENT INTO MY HANDS. THEN I WENT TO RELEASE THE CROWNED RIBBON TO OPEN UP THE
PARCHMENT AND WHEN IT CAME UNDONE I HEARD ALL KINDS OF BIRDS BURST FORTH INTO SINGING..THEIR SINGING WAS SO VERY BEAUTIFUL. WHEN I GOT THE PARCHMENT OPENED AND
LOOKED AT THE WORDS I SAW IT WAS WRITTEN IN HEBREW AS I BEGAN TO LOOK AT IT A VOICE SPOKE OUT LOUD AND SAID:BEHOLD! A MYSTERY...I WILL SHOW YOU YOUR
BIRTHRIGHT IN THE DAYS TO COME..BEHOLD! AND THEN I WAS NO LONGER IN THE FOREST BUT INSTEAD IN SOME HUGE DESERT. FROM FAR AWAY I COULD SEE A WALLED CITY WITH
SOME SORT OF BLACK MIST ALL AROUND THE WALLS AND IT SWIRLED UP AND DOWN THE WALLS OF THE CITY,IT NEVER WENT COMPLETLY TO THE TOP OF THE WALL JUST ABOUT 2/3
UP IT AND THEN WOULD COME BACK DOWN AGAIN. THE WAY IT SWIRLED UP AND DOWN REMINDED YOU OF THE MOVEMENTS OF A SNAKE..SWIRLING UP AND DOWN AROUND THE WHOLE
WALL OF THE CITY, THEN THAT SAME VOICE THAT SPOKE TO ME IN THE FOREST SPOKE AGAIN AND SAID:"COME...BEHOLD YOUR BIRTHRIGHT" AND AS THE VOICE FINISHED SPEAKING I
BEGAN TO BE GENTLY PUSHED FORWARD LIKE I WAS ON SOME TYPE OF ROLLING GROUND, MY FEET WEREN'T MOVING BUT I WAS MOVING FORWARD...THE CLOSER I GOT THE THICKER
AND MORE DENSE THAT SWIRLING BLACK MIST BECAME UNTIL I COULDN'T SEE THE WALLS OF THE CITY ANYMORE, JUST A THICK DARK MIST SWIRLING ALL AROUND...AND THEN THE NEXT
THING I KNEW I WAS UP ON TOP OF THE WALL OF THE CITY AND I WAS LOOKING AROUND AND THEN I LOOKED DOWN INTO THE CITY,BUT WHAT I THOUGHT WAS A CITY WAS IN FACT NO
CITY BUT INSTEAD I WAS LOOKING AT THE BIGGEST LION I HAVE EVER SEEN, IT WAS ENORMOUS! IT WAS THE SIZE OF A HUGE HOUSE..AND IT WAS PACING AROUND AND AROUND
INSIDE THAT WALL..AROUND AND AROUND THE PERIMETERS OF THE WALL THE LION KEPT WALKING..PACING BACK AND FORTH HE WAS NEVER STILL,THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN I FELT A SHIFT IN
THE WALL, FOR THE WALL FELT LIKE IT WAS MOVING AND I LOOKED DOWN AT THE WALL UPON WHICH I WAS STANDING TO SEE WHY IT SEEMED TO MOVE AND WHAT I THOUGHT WAS A
WALL WHEN SEEN FROM FAR AWAY WAS IN FACT NO WALL AT ALL...BUT PEOPLE! IT WAS PEOPLE WHO MADE UP THE WALL,THEY WERE STACKED UPON ONE ANOTHER IN SUCH A
WAY THAT THEY FORMED STAIRS,I NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS,FOR THEY LOOKED LIKE LIVING STAIRS OF SOME SORT. AND THEN MY ATTENTION WAS BROUGHT TO A VERY
LARGE MAN IN THE SKY UP ABOVE ME AND HE WAS SHOUTING: REMNANTS! GIVE ME YOUR REMNANTS! I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT,THEN SUDDENLY HE WAS STANDING IN
FRONT OF ME WITH HIS HAND HELD OUT ASKING FOR MY REMNANT..AND THEN I HELD OUT MY HAND AND WHEN I LOOKED DOWN AT IT THERE IT WAS A TORN PIECE OF WHITE
LOOKING MUSLIN IT LOOKED LIKE A PIECE OF A JIG SAW PUZZLED THE WAY IT WAS ALL CUT.....AND THEN HE MOVED ON AND KEPT ASKING FOR REMNANTS AND THAT IS WHEN I SEEN
ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE...FOR ON TOP OF THAT WHOLE WALL WAS IT LINED WITH PEOPLE AND EVERYONE OF THEM HAD A PIECE OF A REMANANT..SOME HAD THAT WHITE PIECE OF MUSLIN LIKE ME
WHILE OTHERS HAD COLORED PIECES..THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SHIMMERING COLORS I HAVE EVER SEEN....WELL I COULDN'T HELP BUT NOTICE THE GIRL STANDING TO THE LEFT OF ME
WITH HER REMANANT SHE HAD THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PURPLE SATIN REMANANT I THOUGH OH MY GOSH, THE COLOR OF ROYALITY!! AND AT THAT MOMENT I REALLY COVETED THAT
GIRLS PURPLE PIECE...I THOUGH OH HOW LUCKY SHE IS TO HAVE THE COLOR OF ROYALITY FOR MINE WAS JUST A LITTLE PLAIN WHITE PIECE...OH HOW I WAS WISHING HER PURPLE
REMANANT WOULD HAVE BEEN MINE INSTEAD..MY LITTLE WHITE MUSLIN PIECE WAS SO PLAIN IT DIDN'T EVEN SHINE LIKE HERS,NOR LIKE ANY OF THE OTHER COLORED PIECES....NOW
THIS IS VERY ODD WHAT HAPPENED NEXT FOR AFTER HE WAS DONE COLLECTING ALL OUR REMNANTS THEN ABOVE ALL OUR HEADS THEY APPEARED AND THEY WERE SPINNING AROUND
AND AROUND OVER EACH OF OUR HEADS OUR REMNANTS WHERE SPINNING AROUND AND AT THE SAME TIME THEY COLLECTED UP IN THE AIR COLOR WITH COLOR FOR EACH
PIECE WAS BEING FIT TOGETHER LIKE SOME GIANT JIG SAW PUZZLE AND FORMING A GIANT ROBE MADE UP OF MANY COLORS...THE COAT OF MANY COLORS..AND ALL THE PLAIN
WHITE MUSLIN PIECES WERE NOT INCLUDED IN THAT ROBE FOR THEY WERE COMING TOGETHER IN THEIR OWN PLACE UP THERE ALONG SIDE OF THE COAT OF MANY COLORS...FOR ALL
THE LITTLE WHITE PIECES WERE BEING FIT TOGETHER WITH EACH OTHER LIKE SOME PUZZLE PIECE EACH FINDING THEIR PLACE IN WHAT WAS BEING FORMED OF THEM AND WHEN ALL
THE WHITE PIECES WERE FINISHED BEING FIT TOGETHER IT WASN'T A ROBE LIKE THE COAT OF MANY COLORS WAS BUT IN FACT THE WHITE PIECES FORMED INTO A GIANT LONG WHITE
SHEET AND WHEN IT WAS ALL DONE THE VOICED SHOUTED OUT:"BEHOLD! THE BURIAL CLOTH" I GOT SO EXCITED I STARTED SHOUTING:YES!! YES!! ALRIGHT!! FOR I KNEW WHAT
THIS WAS...AND THE NEXT THING I KNEW I FELT A PULLING KIND OF TUG BEHIND MY BELLY BUTTON AND I WAS JERKED UP AND PUT INTO THE AIR ALONG WITH THOUSANDS OF OTHERS WHO
ALSO HAD THE WHITE REMNANT AND WE ALL HAD ON PURPLE ROBES AND ENCRUSTED CROWNS THAT WAS GOLD AND AT THE SAME TIME AN IRIDESCENT PURPLE LOOK TO THAT
BEAUTIFUL CROWN THAT WAS UPON ALL OUR HEADS AND OUR ATTENTION WAS DRAWN BACK TO THE LION BENEITH US FOR THE WALLS SHIFTED AGAIN AFTER WE WERE GIVEN OUR
ROBES, AND THERE BECAME A BREACH IN THE WALL AS THE WALL OPENED AND THAT HUGE LION THAT WAS PACING WITHIN THE WALLS LEAPED OUT FROM WITHIN THE WALL AND DID THE
STRANGEST THING FOR IT OPENED ITS MOUTH WIDE AND BEGAN TO INHALE ALL THAT BLACK MIST LIKE SOME GIANT VACUUM AND IT INHALED IT ALL TILL THERE WAS NO MORE...AND THERE MY DREAM ENDED...
BRANDI E.
