UPDATE: Following the sermon/teaching Sunday @ Otter Creek Church on the role of mysticism and the Spirit in the life of deep spirituality . . .

I had lunch with a friend recently who told me he’d never experienced sleep paralysis prior to me talking about it. This is one of the danger about talking publicly about very mysterious things. Once you set it in motion, like a cat, you can’t quite predict what will go down. A few others have e-mailed me with stories of strange dreams. Of course, the important question is always, “How does this experience square with the God of scripture and God’s purposes in the world.”

My favorite line came from another friend who, in reflecting upon the teaching, said, “I’m simply waiting for one guy to step up, say God gave him a dream, and that he’s going to marry the girl that no one else is dying to marry.” That is, in his experience, guys strangely have dreams about the girls everyone else would love to date/marry too. One of the signs that the revelation/dream is of God is if it dares you to take a risk and do something uncomfortable.