Awakening
Jenny Stone knew she was asleep, but she was not awake enough feel her consciousness outside herself. Was this ascension experience proof that the Lord exists? Jenny felt like it was. Then she drifted deeper into her sleep. Jenny had blonde hair and she was a beautiful girl. She also got straight A's except in science where she almost failed. A result of her Christian upbringing, she was taught by her church to ignore the teachings of biology and to some degree geology. Jenny was not sure who to believe. She turned and tossed in her sleep. It was a Saturday night and her family had people over to visit. She would still have to go to church the next day, but she felt like it was an adventure staying up later than usual.
She remembered some of the bible stories she was brought up with. One where men would give their wives to sodomites to be raped in order to save men from being raped. She found herself in a cloth robe and looking at the Pyramids. She was dreaming. But the dream felt real. Her husband, a man Jenny had no memory of, all of a sudden, she knew was her husband. She looked around at the Pyramids. Egyptians walking by her. Looking at the blonde girl. To make even more certain this was a dream, Jenny saw the Great Wall of China and some other monuments all there. Antiquity. She knew that Greco-Roman ruins and Chinese fortresses all belonged in Egypt. Her husband, apparently named Gabriel ordered her back into the house.
Gabriel: "Set my dinner Jenny, so that we may thanketh the Lord and eateth our plates."
Jenny: "But I made the meal."
Gabriel: "SHAME BE THY NAME! O' thou could you?"
Jenny: "I am sorry."
In the dream, Jenny knew she had every reason to feel bad. Then a knock at her door came. It was the middle of the day seconds ago. But now it was of darkest night. The thriving metropolis of daytime now seemed to be a small oasis town. It made no sense to anyone except Jenny and everyone else in her dream. The knock grew louder.
Gabriel: "My wife, answer the door, so as God proclaimed you to serve me!"
Jenny opened the door. A bunch of men wielding torches, carrying rope and weapons all spoke at once.
Mob: "Oh lady of the house! Giveth us your husband so that we may know him!"
Jenny: "Wait, isn't that a sin?"
Gabriel bravely confronted the mob, refusing.
Gabriel: "So the Lord commandeth you not to rapeth me! But I shall do what the lord desires. Take my wife! So that you may know her."
The mob grabbed Jenny. Somehow in the dream Jenny did not feel what any 18 year old virgin girl would be about to be gang-raped. She did not feel the sweat, nor the pinching, nor the heat of the torches, nor the rope being tied around her hands. But as she wrapped her covers on her, she felt her body become more restrained. The men cheered, Gabriel felt the blessing from the lord, literally a gleaming glow of light. Jenny was then gang raped by several Philistines, like many of the women in the Old Testament. She in the dream felt like she was doing a duty to her husband. But there was one last twist in her crazy dream. A woman in the mob then walked over to her. As Jenny lay on the ground naked, bound and exhausted, the woman knelt down and put her vagina in Jenny's mouth, all of a sudden Jenny felt violated and she awoke with a startle.
Jenny woke up in a cold sweat and barely remembering that she had enjoyed the rape in the dream, she felt like she had just fallen into a icy cold pond in the winter. I was touched by a dyke?!? She thought. She said a silent prayer for forgiveness and went back to sleep.
The next day Jenny sat at the breakfast table, feeling the awkward silence. Her father puffed on his pipe and her mother of course did all the breakfast preparation in her church clothes and an apron. Jenny then wondered if she dared do it. Dared bring up sex...
Jenny: "Um Dad, last night I had a weird dream, like a biblical one."
Jenny's Dad: "Well of course, the Lord wants you to enjoy church today."
Jenny: "Well no, it was more of a sex dream..."
Jenny's Dad: "You keep that satanic garble to yourself young lady!"
Jenny: "But Daddy I..."
Jenny's Dad: "NO MORE!"
Jenny stopped talking. But she reflected on her dream. She wondered if that was what sex would be like. Her parents wouldn't let her attend health class and the church told her that abstinence was the only method to avoid birth control and unwanted pregnancy. She also was told that happy Christian Marriages between a man and a woman were the only happy relationships.
On the way to Church, Jenny read a bit of her bible. She noted that Jesus a man who went around helping people. Perhaps her pastor would help her understand her dream. They passed the hospital, her father and mother began talking about the pro-choice and pro-life protestors outside.
Jenny's Dad: "Look at those commies, demanding our tax dollars to kill the unborn! If they are out of munchies they should stop smoking marijuana!"
Jenny's Mom: "The hospital will be privatized again someday, have faith dear."
Jenny: "What about Jesus? Didn't he go around healing the sick?"
Jenny's Dad: "Right. He believed in charity to help those God had not forgotten. But many of those people who leech our tax dollars are drunken lazy welfare families who think they are too good for a minimum wage job. They only have to turn to God instead of whining to the government."
Jenny thought about her father, he never did chores around the house and he drank heavily on a daily basis. But she remembered to honour him and began reading the bible again.
They pulled up to the large super-cathedral, "God's Last Church" and began searching for a parking spot. Jenny's dad paid the toll booth man and then tossed his keys at the valet without tipping him. Jenny's mother gave the valet a look of snubbing. Jenny just smiled at him, not wanting to be rude, the valet smiled back.
Jenny's Dad: "Thank god we beat the Henderson's here. They always try to take the best parking spots. They have some nerve after letting their leaves blow into my yard."
Jenny: "Daddy our yard has lots of trees, theirs doesn't."
Jenny's Dad: "MY leaves don't blow off. They let all sorts of trees blow into their yard and into ours. Of all the neighbours I have ever had, I hate them the most..."
Jenny's Mom: "Now dear, the Lord knows they just come here to spite him. They will go to hell..."
Jenny's Dad: "They had better..."
The sermon was intense, one of the pastors slipped on the stage and then told a story about how the Jews crucified Jesus, before he went on to pray for the Israeli's fighting Arabs in the Holy Land. Jenny's Dad spent time making racist jokes to the other men afterwards at the reception and Jenny's Mom gossiped with their wives. Jenny just walked around and found the pastor. Father McKay.
Jenny: "Hi Father McKay. I have a question."
McKay: "Of course Jenny, what is it?"
Jenny: "Um can I come into your office and talk to you privately?"
McKay: "Of course."
On the way to the office McKay told one of the female clergy to stack up the sandwiches better. Then they arrived. Jenny liked McKay's office. He had all sorts of art, some of which might be idols, but he insists he was a collector.
Jenny: "Um I had a biblical dream last night. But like the flavour was the Old Testament where God wants the husbands to let men rape their wives and daughters instead of practicing sodomy."
McKay: "I see. Well God is not like that anymore. Jesus died for our sins, so women no longer have to be raped by fags trying to spread their gayness to families."
Jenny: "Well it gets weirder. A woman touched me in my dream. Also the part I remember most was being tied up."
McKay: "Well people in ancient times were violent. Of course a good Christian girl would have to be tied up to be raped."
Jenny: "I might not have been a Christian in my dream. This was before Jesus' time."