Lunch with friend & an Amish gentleman

[lainey68]

I dreamt that my friend Susie, her son Frank and an Amish gentleman came to pick me up from work and took me to lunch. Susie asked me to drive. The car was a black Mitsubishi Eclipse. I started driving, and looked in my rear view mirror and was being pulled over by a police officer. The police officer said the car was leaking gas. I and Susie got out to take a look. When we got out, the police officer was a female and she actually was a security guard. She was saying that the car had a light by the gas tank that was on. Susie basically told her the car was okay, but I was thinking that I would have to give her back the car she just sold me (IRL, her son Frank sold me his truck. The day I bought it, I got pulled over because one of the taillights was out).

We drove to Susie & Frank's house and she had prepared dinner. It wasn't really her house, though. The house was very dirty and her stove and refrigerator were broken. We ate dinner and the Amish man started talking about a particular farmhouse that had been on the market and I had at one point been interested in purchasing. He was talking about how the home is gas powered and that it whoever bought it would simply need to set up an account with the gas company which was in Texas (I live in Maryland). The Amish don't use electricity, so that's why the home is gas powered. I hadn't been listening previously, but when he said that, I started listening. The man mentioned that he had started a new job. I don't remember what the job was, but we were talking about it. Also, the man's name was Mr. Yoder, which is a common Amish name. As we ate dinner, I felt very badly about the condition of Susie's home and was wondering how I could help. Then her son Frank said that I was going to be late going back to work if we didn't leave. Susie during the whole dinner seemed very agitated. Then they all got into the car. I had changed my clothes before we ate dinner so I went to go change back. I had on a bright blue dress. I walked out to get into the car--Susie was driving. There was a rosebush with a lot of thorns, but no roses. It was either dead or just dormant. Susie was telling me to be careful because I didn't want to get pricked by the bush. Mr. Yoder helped me get into the car and I started thinking of calling my job because I was going to be about 10 min late.
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Just a little background: Susie has been a mentor to me. Her son, who is my age, has a mental illness and when my daughter became mentally ill, she was one of the few people that helped me through that time. She is a widow, and her house is in disrepair--although not to the extent of the dream. The fact that in the dream we were riding in an Eclipse was so unusual is that both Susie and Frank are extremely obese. Also, as I said above, Frank just recently sold me his truck.

The Amish man in the dream was actually a man who was Amish, but became a born again believer and was ex-communicated for reading the bible in English. There is a documentary about him, but his name is not Yoder.

I was just wondering what the significance of the dream is? IRL, I live very close to an Amish community and interact with them fairly frequently. At one point, I used to wonder if they knew about Jesus and what they believed, but I kinda shrugged that off because I figured they are Christians. Last year sometime, I discovered what they really believe and was really saddened. I was trying to understand the significance of Susie, the condition of her home and the car we were driving and how all of this is related to me and the Amish, or does the Amish man represent religion or Christians who are "religious" but not putting their faith into practice?

Susie & I belong to the same church. We have had many, many discussions on what the church's role is in supporting widows, & quite frankly, our church isn't doing it. Like I said, IRL, Susie's home is in disrepair & needs some work. She a lot of times can't vacuum. I would offer to do it, but she has a cat & I am very allergic. I feel kind of hypocritical right now. She once asked me if I knew anyone who could vacuum for her & she'd pay them $100. I didn't know of anyone, and I didn't volunteer myself (I would have done it for free, however).

Any insight is appreciated. Thank you!

[Jen]

I wonder if God allowed you to have this dream to show you, your emotions on these issues that seem to bother you, so that you could give them to the Lord and He can renew your mind to what He thinks on the subject? It would perhaps progress you in the spiritural realm, giving you more confidence in the Lord and putting you in a place of ministry to the Amish...

Pray about it, I coud be wrong.

[MJ]

lainey:

I wondered if the dream may mean that we may hurt so badly at times and even though we are firmly planted in the Word and understand the Word and have discernment, our needs go unmet and we end up being pulled into situations that are not good for us----because there are those in life who are willing to help (Mr. Yoder was a type) but are not grounded in the Christian sense and may actually be used to lead us astray.

It seems you are so overwhelmed with the condition of your friends' home and their needs it is difficult for you to know just where to start---even vaccuming the house seems too difficult for you to do at this time. It's like you know it isn't just about vacuuming and helping to clean up their house, their house is just surface stuff, they have so many needs that vacuuming is just the tip of the iceburg in helping them.

I would recommend to pray specifically what it is that God would have you do to help out and then just do that, nothing more and nothing less. You seem indebted to them, but really they ministered to you because they were being obedient, not because there were strings attached...at least there shouldn't be strings attached.

My two cents...hope it helps. Bless you with needed insight.