wishes

[emily leonard]

what is your wish? if you had 3 wishes what would they be and why?

my wish would be to fly (but not with wings) that would be amazing

[Spock]

I fly without wings.....I use an airplane.

[Nurvingiel]

An airplane without wings? (I know what my second wish would be... )

For my first wish, I wish for 1'000'000 more wishes!

Okay, but seriously, I'm glad you started this thread. The other day, I was pondering the X-files episode in which Mulder is granted a wish by a genie, and he asks for world peace. She the grants the wish, but he's now the only human being on the planet. The rest of the episode is spent trying to restore humanity.

So... what three wishes could you make to come as close as possible to peace on Earth? Maybe it's impossible for this ideal to actually be achieved, but I certainly think it would be worth three wishes to get closer.

But what would you say?


If I was going to wish for something for myself, I think being able to fly would be awesome. And of course, so the genie doesn't mess you up out of spite, you'd have to add a bunch of provisions like no physical changes, you can fly at very high altitudes without suffering from oxygen deprivation, etc.

[Lief Erikson]

The difficulty with wishing that you could fly is that tons of people will be staring at you, unless you only do it in your home (which would be limiting). You'd be talking to the press, going through all sorts of hassle over what should be simple pleasure. Though I suppose some people might consider the press attention to be simple pleasure too .

Annoying to have complications to simple, pleasant desires, isn't it? In dreams, one never has to worry about that.


I find it really wonderful as a Christian that Solomon was able to have his wish. God came to him in a dream and asked him what he wanted. That has got to have been very pleasant indeed .


By the way, Nurvi, it's usually taken for granted that people can't ask for vast numbers of extra wishes, when this game is played .

[Nurvingiel]

Originally Posted by Lief Erikson

By the way, Nurvi, it's usually taken for granted that people can't ask for vast numbers of extra wishes, when this game is played .

I know, I was making a joke!

You could fly at night. Or wear all sky blue. No one would be looking too closely in the sky for somebody flying.

[Lief Erikson]

That's true. But then, if I think hard enough about flying in the day, I might be able to fly during the night anyway, and without any loss of sleep . . .

I would really like to fly, though. Not exactly to fly, actually. To jump really high, really lightly. I've not dreamt of flying for years and years, and doing it was not nearly so fun as jumping. I've dreamt of the jumping several times. These are probably my absolute favorite dreams (with extremely rare exceptions that are dreams from the Lord, and thus extra special).


My main wishes I've made into prayers. I even have prayed that the Lord would grant me the ability to do those enormous leaps I just described. Obviously I can't do them . . . yet . I actually do consider it possible the Lord might give me that as a gift in the future. Perhaps not, but perhaps so. I hope so.

The scripture certainly does not indicate this to be impossible. The Spirit came upon Elijah in such a way that he was able to outrun King Ahab's chariot, even despite Ahab's massive head start. When Satan tempted Jesus by encouraging him to jump off of the Temple, he said that angels would lift Jesus up in their arms so that he would not strike a foot against a stone. Jesus did not say he was incorrect in his interpretation of that passage, but rather said that he would not put the Lord God to he test.

So for it to be possible for someone to make these enormous leaps certainly is theologically possible. The first of my dreams that included jumping was also abnormally realistic and irregular from normal dreams in several ways.

In the dream (which I had when I was probably six or eight years old), I was grown up, wealthy and married. It was night time, and I was standing on top of a skyscraper. Thugs were on the skyscraper trying to kill me, so I jumped off the skyscraper. Instead of falling to my death, I floated over the city, descending very slowly until I alighted on a playground.

This dream was extremely odd because it's the only one I had as a child where I was married. Wealth would not have occurred to someone who didn't have any need of it or thought of it. It's just a pretty odd dream in its realism. It is also theologically sound, because the step of faith was not as a test as Jesus' was to be, but for very good reasons.

So I'm hoping that in the future, that dream will be shown to have been a true dream from God . That's not necessarily a belief, but it's a hope I will stick to with determination .