Church of Dreams

September 7, 20014
Sunday Morning 

If only two . . . .

In our dreams we went to a service – it began just before dawn – in a ragged tent at the end of a grass road, where pasture turned to woods. There were only two people there when we arrived, and no more came. The lay person read from Matthew 18, and the priest – a fierce, pitiable Tiresias, half-man and half-woman, angry and wise – explained the failure of the church. Jesus had said that “if any two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my father which is in heaven” (v. 19); but since Paul had shamed Peter at Antioch and boasted of it to the Galatians, no two could agree; therefore, no true prayers had been made and none of the church’s petitions could be answered. 

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