By Hannah Skipper
Recently, I had an interesting Easter-themed dream. It started with Jesus and His disciples walking down a dusty dirt road in the Sahara Desert and, as they go along, Jesus tells them He wants to wash their feet. Then the conversation runs almost verbatim John 13:8-10.
Peter: No, you will never wash my feet.
Jesus: Unless I wash you, you’ll have no part in me.
Peter: Then not just my feet but my hands and head as well.
Jesus: Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet. And you are clean, though not every one of you.
Then, suddenly, Jesus transforms into a marten and the twelve disciples become one greyhound. The dog takes off after the marten and I’m so surprised that I wake up.
Of course, my first waking thought was to be weirded out that my brain turned Jesus into a weasel but a few days later, at my weekly Bible study, we got into a conversation about night dreams and my pastor, who was teaching the class, gave me a cool insight.
He said that my turning the disciples into a greyhound made him think of how excited a dog is when it chases its prey. Likewise, we should pursue Christ with the intense drive that the greyhound in my dream started off after the marten.
To be completely honest, I’m not always the best when it comes to “washing feet” but if I always pursued Christ with the same vigor that the greyhound pursued Him, I might be better at it.
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