Words of the Cayme Family
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Words of the Cayme Family |
During the time of my searching moments, I developed the desire to attend different kinds of Christian fellowships and mingled with different faiths. My grandmother was very upset with it. She believed (of course, old people's way of thinking) that since we were born Catholics, we should die as Catholics despite the fact that all her 5 sisters were Iglesia ni Cristo [Church of Christ] members and their sons and daughters were deacons and deaconesses. She was never influenced by them or my grandfather's sibling who was a Jehovah Witness deaconess.
In short, my mother's parents were the only Catholics among their siblings and my mother's siblings were raised to that traditional faith. Therefore my act of going from one faith to another was very strange in our traditional life.
So to keep my obedience to my grandma, I had to keep myself at home and focus on reading the bible and try to analyze and digest the words I was reading.
One night, I fell asleep while in the middle of reading the Bible and I dreamt of a super enormous snake. There was no ANACONDA movie yet at that time (1983) so I didn't know about it but that snake was just smaller than the Anaconda I saw from the movie. The snake came out from a hole in one of the house's pillars. The house was almost a worn-out small building made of logs. It was situated in the forest covered by many tall trees around.
I couldn't remember the beginning of the dream except for the part that I was in front of that log cabin and suddenly this snake came out from a hole and ran after me. To my surprised, I started running everywhere to the best of my speed ability. I was thinking, "what is this?" I couldn't imagine how I could ever escape from it. While running anywhere, I was thinking of a strategy. At the back of my mind since I was a gold medalist for 200 and 400 meter sprint during my 2 years in PWU, I had to use my speed ability to trick this snake...
So what I did, while running I really looked for a place where there was a BIG tree where I could do my plan like the cartoon animation story (speedy Gonzalez: I think it is Tom and Jerry now) where the mouse had to escape from the cat.
All of a sudden I saw a one rounded garden of roses in the middle of that forest with one very big pine tree in the middle. It was a beautiful big rose garden in the middle of many big trees. For me seeing that was an answer to my plan... I ran as fast I could to reach that place and use my jumping ability in hurdle relay track events to go over these thorny rose plants
My plan was to run around the garden for several turns in the fastest way I could to trick him, jump over the rose plants from time to time and later escape. I was thinking the snake would be stuck around the rose stems and would be hurt by the thorns. However, the snake had been pouring out its speed almost equal to mine... "oh my gosh!" I exclaimed.
I remembered that when I felt hopeless, unintentionally I uttered the following sentence, "oh my Gosh, Lord please help me!" This is the usual expression if people are danger though it's not coming from the heart. But in that situation, really I was seriously in need of help otherwise I felt it's my end.
Suddenly I spotted a small log cabin just beside the rounded garden which was not there in the beginning and in it was a man watching at me from the window, I shouted "please help me" and stopped running around the tree instead came up to him who was also coming out from his house to meet me.
As soon as I jumped over the roses he was already in front of me and the moment I landed on the ground exactly I was able to embrace his big thigh. He was tall and with good body shape and was holding a cane stick taller than him. Without a word he just laid his palm on my head and to my surprised, the snake was nowhere to be found in the site then I woke-up.
That whole day I was trying to recall his face, I could feel he was Jesus but had no chance to really glance on his face before I woke up except when I saw him in the window. In my recollections and feelings his face was not similar to any of Jesus pictures I had seen. He was more of an Asian so I was wondering who he was at that time.
During those times I couldn't interpret my dreams however after I've learned the Divine Principle and met the Messiah, I realized the following
1. I will definitely face my big snake (trials, suffering, test etc) in life
2. to overcome the snake I need to keep my faith to God.
3. I have to use all my abilities and knowledge I learned to succeed over this path of fighting this snake
4. anytime anywhere, snake will appear in our life so we need to be prepared always.
5. in those trials and suffering moment especially life and death situation, never ever forget that God is with us. He is always within our reach but just waiting for a call from us before he will help.
6. while we are in search of a true path, snake is inevitable in our journey.
This is not a drama or an animation comedy but I believed God had been preparing my path earlier than the time I joined the church.