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Old Fashioned Telephone/ Pin Creation for Co-workers

Dear Dream Interpreters,

Yesterday I was working at conncecting to this website. I was a bit anxious and feeling a little disconnected with everyone. I've been wanting to find answers to some issues that I have had for many many years and thought that possible along with the class of "Prayers That Heal the Heart" and the "Healing Rooms" here at Koinonia Nework, I could possible crack the case more quickly with many others involved.

My dream went something like this:

I was in a school like setting with co-workers. There were old fashioned black rotory dial phones in many places. I had managed to pick up an old fashioned black phone receiver with just the coiled wire hanging from it. I fully intended to put it back as soon as I did what I was suppose to do. The phone receiver and coil was detached from the rotory dial base. As I was wandering around the school, I heard someone on the other end of the phone that I was carrying around that was detached, however, when I said, "Hello", they would not respond. I kept trying to get someone to respond, but they wouldn't. While I was walking around with the phone in my hand, I heard some children saying something on the phone. Since they wouldn't speak to me at first, I decided I wasn't going to let them play games with me so I ignored them and didn't respond to them. I kept trying to find the base of the phone to reconnect it. In the mean time I had been asked by a co-worker to make her a decorative pin which was made of a piece of white stiff perforated paper and gold looking like rocks that were placed in a piled up formation on the paper and glued down. My pastor said at first that he didn't want us to use that paper, however, he changed his mind when he realized we were going to make pins for all the workers. One of my co-workers said that she would make the pins, however, I wanted to make them and did not give her the permission to make them. I never did find the phone base or make the pins even though I had searched the school bus lot and the High School. The dream left me feeling discouraged and somewhat upset.

Tags: 2012/Old, Black, Fashioned, Julia, Lynne, Paper, Parker/Feb.5, Phones/Poster, Pins

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Permalink Reply by Louise McNeil on February 9, 2012 at 9:21pm

Telephones can represent our prayers, connecting with the Lord, and sometimes represents our inability or ability to "connect with others. They give us the ability to speak with anyone we are not able to speak with physically (face to face.), and that is why they usually refer to prayer. Also, many people try to talk with departed loved ones via the phone in their dreams. The half of the telephone you are carrying, reveals that you are not properly "equiped" to connect or speak. You say in the beginning of your note that you feel disconnected from others, do you know why? Has something happened to cause these feelings of being disconnected in both your dream and in your writting?

Are you of the age that this era of phones were used?

You looked at the school and then the high school for a way to reconnect (the rest of the phone parts). Did something happen to you in school that had a negative impact on you?

In relation to the pins (pins represent what theme or passion we are interested in...on Valentines day we wear hearts of love, on Christmas we wear pins of angels, crosses, or gift packages, if we love turtles we wear turtle pins, motorcycles we wear motorcycle pins...and so on) so it points to a "theme" or passion that you want to express or do, and it seems in your description that you are running into some controlling and usurping related people from church (pastor) and from work (co-worker that wanted to take over and make them). Did you speak your mind to this co-worker or the pastor in your dream?

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Permalink Reply by Gloria Blessed on February 9, 2012 at 10:34pm

Hello Louise,

Thanks for your reply to my dream.

Having the ability to speak to others about how they are treating me has been a problem from the time I was 4 years old. I had a traumatic experience at the age of 4. However, I am learning to connect with God and hear His voice much clearer since I've taken the "Communion with God" course at CLU. I have learned to understand how to journal God's voice even better. I have always loved to journal and have found it a great tool for God to encourage me with.

Yes, I remember the old fashioned rotary dial black phones. Yes, I've had many negative impacting experiences all my life. Only since we have been going to the Vineyard Church have I begun to truly connect with my husband and he with me and to have a much better mental attitude. My God in my church and the people there have been so helpful in freeing me emotionally, even though I'm still a work in progress.

No I did not speak my mind to my co-worker or the pastor in my dream. Even in real life, I have not been able to say what I want to say to my pastor and my co-worker. Seems in lots of my dreams, I have difficulty confronting or even taking charge of my life in them. Although, there have been times in the past few years that I have actually stood up for myself, which is a pretty awesome thing since I was never ever able to do that at all.

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Permalink Reply by Louise McNeil on February 9, 2012 at 10:50pm

We are all works in progress.

It sounds as though you know your own needs and are headed in the right direction towards healing of that four year olds memories and the impact it has had on the rest of your life. I would love to see what you create. It is Interesting to note that paper and rocks are textural and weight wise, opposites and that they are being put together to create a beautiful result....your passion/theme/you.

God bless your journey, and may He bring you swift and complete healing of those memories from toddler to high school and may He loosen your tongue for His holy purposes.... in Jesus name. Amen

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Permalink Reply by Gloria Blessed on February 10, 2012 at 7:35am

Thank you very much Louise.

I really have no trouble praying and talking to people about the Lord, in fact my husband says I have more nerve than the government mule! That's just an old fashioned saying for BOLD. It's just when I have to say something to someone who is putting me down because I guess I've been a people pleaser. On the other hand not defending myself has been a blessing too and has saved me from a lot of interpersonal relationship squables. A blessing sometimes and sometimes it isn't.

Have an awesome, powerful and rich day in the Lord!!

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Permalink Reply by Louise McNeil on February 10, 2012 at 12:37pm

I understand what you are working on. I have learned the hard way that the Lord will defend me, and after learning that He showed me that sometimes I do have to step out and gently say "no, that isn't quite right, or not quite what I said or did" when falsely accused. These things are bound to happen, as the enemy pushes against us at a heart level. It is a constant balance.....like so many things that are involved with loving the lovley, the unlovley, and ourselves...which are all required.

Thank you again for sharing, and for your kind wish for my day..