A Sweet Dream Before Christmas

I dreamed of meeting Jesus Christ.

He took me to the early days of the earth where the land has been terraformed.

Time moved in a strange manner, and historical events overlap with one another.

And in a sudden I walked with Him and His disciples through a corn field.

He created a path... no, paths... by speaking to the crops, just like God did with the Red Sea.

We didn't talk much, but we walked through the field not as enemies.

Then as we walked to what seemed like an American city, I saw majetic creatures that would be no more in my time.

Grey, winged, dolphin-like creatures roaming the sky gracefully, dashing up and drifting down, wafting through a blue sky that felt a little dim.

Not long after, cotton-like apparitions dancing slowly in and out of the water.

I could not remember clearly, but I remember taking shelter in a house with stone walls and wooden doors - a strange design in a city of bricks and mortars.

The Jesus I met was gentle, as depicted in paintings and imaginations of renaissance men. He let people rest while he prayed in the living room.

But at night, some people knocked the door.

Jesus welcomed them...

And there were shootings and blood.

I could only see in the shadows that in the middle of the bloodbath, Jesus had taken off his white robe and his human form, turning into a monster of swerving arms, killing the armed men who knocked our door.

And that's when the apocalypse happened.

The scene quickly turned into people panicking in the street. It was chaos.

But looking back, it was strange that nobody seemed to know what caused the end of the world.

We just grew restless and ran for our lives.

Jesus was gone, and so were the disciples.

In the middle of the chaos, the only thing I did was to grab a half-full water bottle in front of an abandoned supermarket.

"Valar morghulis."

I thought the dream ended, but the nightmare had just started.

My old acquaintances at church and I met.

They all talked to me in a room that felt so familiar.

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"It's alright, we understand. That's quite a decision. But we can walk different paths and still respect each other. Good luck!"

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Then I woke up.