Wake me up!
I just woke up from a dream that went on all night. (I know, it was probably about 5 minutes long and it’s all my perception) All I can say is that I am totally exhausted and sooo glad to be awake.

I’m not ‘into’ the interpretation of dreams, but I must say this was pretty rich.....

I went with some friends to a church in Waukegan. (Why Waukegan? )

It was next to a nice shrine to St. Therese that I had previously visited but everybody wanted to go to the church across the street. (I know of no such churches in Waukegan. There is a St. Therese hospital. Which is supposed to close in the near future. Which is a concern for people in northern Lake County, especially the poor, but I don’t think this is what my dream was about.)

The interior looked like the Pantheon, only with lots of tacky decorations. (I watched a PBS program about Rome with the boys last night. The Pantheon did stand out........)

This was like no Catholic Mass I had ever been to. There were weird Masonic things and other just plain weird things. Then they wouldn’t let us leave.

They also wanted all of our money. (That should have been a subconscious clue that I was dreaming. No one would hold me captive for my capital assets......)

I found some other people who wanted to escape. And we fought. We punched and kicked - to the accompaniment of BAMS and POWS like they used to insert in the old Batman show.
And everytime we got through the guards and revolving doors (I can’t stand revolving doors), we were in another lobby with more guards and revolving doors. I kept screaming “this is not a Catholic church.” But people kept coming in.

I woke up at 5:30.

So I may as well ‘ora et labora.’
Especially praying for the people in Maryland, who are living a real nightmare. My dreams may be awful, but today, October 9, 2002, my reality is pretty sweet.