From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   While I've never been much of a "royalist" (perhaps because I'm an American /   
   Tennessean) but while growing up, I kept wondering why there was never a King   
   of England, and then started to notice things like QE's husband was a "Queen's   
   Consort" and things    
   like that, which never actually made much sense.  Like, did he marry her   
   *after* the birth of their children?   Talk about having an emasculated father   
   figure!   
      
   And what of Charles' 2nd wife?  Does the 2nd runner up get to be the Queen?    
   It all "swims in the face of" John 7:24.   
      
   So Queen E died yesterday, yet as that child growing up, it began to be   
   "ingrained" in me that QE would *always* be Queen, even though I kept looking   
   forward to their being a King.   
      
   I'd been thinking QE may have been holding out to pass the crown on to her   
   grandson rather than her son, but such was not to be the case.   
      
   Either way, it puts the Anglican Church in a somewhat different light, having   
   the Monarchy as the "head of the Church" rather than Jesus, which seems a   
   shade anti-Christian, much like how Catholics follow a Pope who follows   
   Peter.  Protestants (some    
   unknowingly) follow Martin Luther who follows Paul.   
      
   Meanwhile, Christians follow Jesus.   
      
   As to the dream from this morning, of which only one was memorable enough to   
   stick around, there was a bird much like a falcon but with a peaceful sense to   
   it, much like a larger dove.  It *could* have actually been a seagull, but I'm   
   unfamiliar with    
   those types of birds (as I'm in a "landlocked state," even though I grew up   
   water skiing in the lakes here) but as it wasn't flying away, the dreamer had   
   this sense that if somehow a perch stance could be held, maybe the bird would   
   come over and land.   
      
   There had been *some* thought (prior to taking that stance) that perhaps the   
   bird was drone-like, being remotely controlled, and that if the dreamer   
   followed the bird, he might find who was at the controls.  This is what led to   
   the scene of taking a    
   stance.  There *may* have been a kind of "subtext" to the scene, as if the   
   bird *may* have been perched on a fence, like one of those 8' tall backyard   
   privacy fences made of consecutive, vertical boards.  But if that was the   
   case, it was so relatively    
   brief as to be nearly gone unnoticed, other than that the bird seemed to have   
   been perched on *something.*   
      
   The dreamer looked at the bird for a moment, then thinking that perhaps birds   
   might be wary of predatory eyes (eyes in front, rather than to the sides, like   
   deer, rabbits, some birds, etc.) the dreamer looked away over the arm   
   stretched out away from the    
   bird.  When the dreamer looked back to see if the bird was coming, it appeared   
   to be flying towards another destination.   
      
   What that destination may have been is slightly unclear, but I have the   
   impression of a young female with a station wagon-like vehicle with an open   
   trunk (sort of like a lift-up hatch back on an SUV) to which the dreamer had   
   the thought along the lines    
   of [There's no way I'm competing against that] and the dream ended.   
      
   Please note that the dreamer had something of a 1st-person/2nd-person instance   
   involving the blond male standing out in the field with arms outstretched, as   
   if to invite the bird to land.  The male was perhaps in his very late teens /   
   early 20s, yet had    
   the sense of knowing what he was about— purposeful, defined.  What is   
   unclear is whether or not the male was the dreamer, and seen as from a 3rd   
   person omniscient perspective, or whether the male was being viewed as a 2nd   
   person participant within the    
   dream.   
      
   As far as any particular meaning that may be drawn from this (at the moment) a   
   few things come to mind, that being, the writings of Richard Bach (author of   
   "Jonathan Livingston Seagull") as well as how much of those writings   
   "resonate" with Old Testament,   
    Hebrew/Judeo concepts, along with *some* divergence from the teaching of   
   Jesus.   
      
   Clarity 9 to 9+, although it did drop off quickly at the end.   
      
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