{"id":1814,"date":"2011-11-22T22:25:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T03:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/blissblog\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2011-11-23T07:49:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T12:49:07","slug":"honoring-jfk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2011\/11\/honoring-jfk.html","title":{"rendered":"Honoring JFK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/107\/2011\/11\/jfk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1830\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/107\/2011\/11\/jfk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"94\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last night I had a powerful and unexpected dream, involving the 35th President of the United States; JFK. In all my 53 years on the planet, I don&#8217;t recall ever having had this man enter my sleeping dream-scape. He was sitting in a wheel chair, looking mighty well preserved for a 94 year old who died 48 years ago in Dallas, Texas. Like most people, I remember where I was at the time. Having just turned 5 a month earlier, I was at home and saw the news reports, not quite understanding why the grownups, including a venerable newsman, (Walter Cronkite) were crying. My parents explained what happened and my youthful mind couldn&#8217;t make sense of it any more than my adult mind can today.<\/p>\n<p>In the dream, he invited me to join him and 3 other people in Washington, DC to speak before a crowd of 60,000 people about the importance of living our passion and purpose for the greater good. Was I thrilled?\u00a0 You bet. Did I believe it? Absolutely.\u00a0 Was I ready to slide into the limo that waited at the curb to ferry us there? I may never know, since I woke up as that was about to happen.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who enjoys delving into dreams, this was a treasure for me. The first thing that occurred to me was a &#8216;holy cosmic coincidence, Batman!&#8217;since the dream occurred literally on the anniversary of his death.\u00a0 The second was that he represented for me, youthful exuberance, commitment to a purpose, idealism, a stick to it attitude, despite his physical pain and challenges. He was beckoning me to live my dreams by sharing my enthusiasm with a crowd on, as a friend said to me &#8220;the big stage of life.&#8221;\u00a0 And so I shall~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Last night I had a powerful and unexpected dream, involving the 35th President of the United States; JFK. In all my 53 years on the planet, I don&#8217;t recall ever having had this man enter my sleeping dream-scape. 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