Three tractors cultivating a field
Three tractors cultivating a field:
- A dream of the night (2005?).
- In this dream I was shown something…
- I was situated up high, observing, alongside a man…an angel.
- Before and below us, there was a large freshly plowed field.
- There were three tractors discing from right to left.
- The two tractors furthest from me moved in tandem, that is, at the same speed, and side by side.
- The one tractor closest to me was discing in the same direction, in the next closest row, but was about a tractor length behind the other two.
- I woke thinking I was to judge the work being done, but now not so much, I’m not the judge.
Today I read the daily reading from, “A Year with C.S. Lewis,” that brought this dream to mind… (am finding some resonance from the beat of the word here in Lewis’s writing and the beat of the word from the dream. (Resonance increases amplitude).
A Year with C.S. Lewis: 7 JUNE: A Whole New Nature
“The records represent Christ as passing after death (as no man had passed before) neither into a purely, that is, negatively, ‘spiritual’ mode of existence nor into a ‘natural’ life such as we know, but into a life which has its own, new Nature. It represents Him as withdrawing six weeks later, into some different mode of existence. It says—He says—that He goes ‘to prepare a place for us’. This presumably means that He is about to create that whole new Nature which will provide the environment or conditions for His glorified humanity and, in Him, for ours. The picture is not what we expected—though whether it is less or more probable and philosophical on that account is another question. It is not the picture of an escape from any and every kind of Nature into some unconditioned and utterly transcendent life. It is the picture of a new human nature, and a new Nature in general, being brought into existence. We must, indeed, believe the risen body to be extremely different from the mortal body: but the existence, in that new state, of anything that could in any sense be described as ‘body’ at all, involves some sort of spatial relations and in the long run a whole new universe. That is the picture—not of unmaking but of remaking. The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.” ~ C.S. Lewis —from Miracles
- And, each “new creature” gets weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop as well.
- The plow first, then the discs to make the soil right.
- It’s probably going to hurt a bit at times…a lot of unlearning to do, but there’s a purpose, and a reward, for the pain: a new crop, pleasing to the Lord.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. II Corinthians 5:17 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/2co.5.17.NKJV
6-15-19 Sa. 7:29pm: from a 5-23-19 notation of another Lewis reading, daily email…
“I find I must borrow yet another parable from George MacDonald. Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently he starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of—throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.
The command Be ye perfect is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He is going to make us into creatures that can obey that command. He said (in the Bible) that we were ‘gods’ and He is going to make good His words. If we let Him—for we can prevent Him, if we choose—He will make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature, pulsating all through with such energy and joy and wisdom and love as we cannot now imagine, a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly (though, of course, on a smaller scale) His own boundless power and delight and goodness. The process will be long and in parts very painful, but that is what we are in for. Nothing less. He meant what He said.”
From Mere Christianity
Compiled in: A Year with C.S. Lewis