I thought it would be cool to experience God in creation by making a snow angel. So, while I was making a snow angel I was praying to the Father, God, Allah, or whatever you choose to call Him or Her. It was then I saw a vision of Jesus, Ghandi, Muhammad, Abraham, Moses, The Buddah, the Dalai Lama, and Pope John Paul II, all sitting at the same table breaking bread together and eating together. It was amazing and clear and wonderful. It was then that I woke up in the hospital.
The details are sketchy, but this is what they told me. They found me frozen, Birkenstocks and all, in the midst of a snow angel. I had apparently been flailing about so much that I melted the snow, which froze underneath me when I began to contract hypothermia and ceased moving. Apparently I tried to get up in my altered state, but was unsuccessful. My friends found me two hours later and called the ambulance. I am glad I at least had my prayer robe on, or else I might have frozen to death in the natural if you know what I mean.
Its very unclear when I saw this vision, but it is comforting, no? I think I can take it to mean that Jesus agrees with all these other methods and that they will all wind up in the kingdom of God. After all, that is what brother Brian McClaren is beginning to articulate in his books, isn't it? I think it is pretty exciting to see a vision of the kingdom, even if it was in the throes of hypothermia. I might try it again to get a clearer picture of what God was trying to communicate.
