Dream of Heart and Crown

I had a dream.

I walked into this church and monks were chanting. It was a huge cathedral type setting and the chanting was beautiful. My friends and family were there, sitting in the pews, as if they were there for my wedding. I was dressed in a beautiful silky layered floor length dress with all sorts of muted colors. I was holding something in my hands. I looked down and it was a heart. It was gold, with a beautitul diamond in the center, and it glistened and reflected off the lights of the church making it illuminate as if it were lighted with electricity. I walked down the aisle with my gold and diamond heart and asked God, who was standing at the alter if he would take, and look after, my heart as I was not doing a very good job of it all.

God responded that he would trade me. He would give me a crown, for my heart. He told me that the crown would not come off. If I made the trade, the crown would be permanently attached. And I kept hearing over and over and over - "My crown for your heart. My crown for your heart. My crown for your heart."

I agreed to the crown and he asked me where I would like to have this ceremony and I said without hesitation, in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Instantly, I was transported to a place where the hills were all around me and I could smell the pine and spruce and the wind was gently blowing around my face and I was still holding my gold and diamnd heart. I heard a noise and looked to my left and the Indian Chief of earlier visions was approaching on horseback. He was glad to see me, but so was I to see him. He has guided me many times in life, and we have a relationship that is hard to explain as it happens only in dreams and visions.

He came over to me and asked if I was ready to give up my heart and I answered "yes, my heart for His crown". And my Indian Chief asked me to dig a hole in the ground. I was surprised by this request. And I questioned it, but the Chief was adament for me to dig the hole, so I went about digging the hole with my bare hands. The earth was easy to move, and I was able to dig the hole with no trouble. When the hole was there, the Chief asked me to put the gold and diamond heart in the hole along with all my troubles and heartbreaks and pain and sorrows and worries and fears and dreams and hopes - put them all in the hole. I was stunned. "You want me to put this beautiful and expensive heart in the ground? I was suppsed to give it to God. God was going to keep it safe and watch over it - and you want me to put it in the ground?"

"Yes, yes", he wanted me to put it in the ground along with all the other things he mentioned.

It isn't easy to know how to put all my troubles and heartbreaks and pain and sorrows and worries and fears and dreams and hopes in the hole in the ground. I didn't have solid symbols of each of those things, but I did have the energy and the feelings that come from all of those things... and so I danced. I danced all around the hole in the ground and tried to strip those things from my spirit and soul and drop them one by one into the hole and then it came time to place my heart in the hole and so I knelt down and placed the beautiful glowing heart in the hole. I said a small prayer and covered the hole with the dirt of the Black Hills as my Indian Chief stood over me and watched.

I was so tired, exhausted from this journey that the Chief suggested I lay down and nap, and as I lay next to my hole, a beautiful and magnificent pine tree grew from the hole and produced shade over me.

And now the chief said that the heart that God was interested in was the one that still was beating inside me. That was the heart that mattered to God, not the gold and diamond one, but the one made of flesh that pumped blood around my body and lived off the air that I breathed. And He told me that God was going to write his name on my heart proclaiming that my heart was His and then he would place my crown upon my head.

Next I was transported back to the ornate church and I was proclamied a princess with God's name on my heart and God's crown on my head. And all the people stood and clapped and I proceeded back down the aisle.

What a really wild dream that one was.

Namaste