Jason Silver

Monday, April 10th, 2017

I Met Elton John Last Night

OK, it was a dream, sorry for the let down... but it made me feel really good.

This is the background:

I heard yesterday that a church I was pastor at for nearly a decade, is having a 125 year anniversary celebration, and they didn’t invite me. It was a really difficult exit from that place, but still, I was surprised that they took that approach.

So I went to bed feeling kind of down.

I was the kind of kid that was beat up after school, even by girls. I remember being chased home a few times, or hiding under my desk until the school buses had all pulled away. There’s something odd about me, I guess.

I didn’t have many friends through elementary school, and had to dodge snowballs walking home from high school too. I think there was a perpetual “kick-me” sign on my back.

All of the churches I’ve worked for I feel like I’ve been abused, taken for granted, and in a couple of instances, unfairly dismissed.

So the dream I had with Sir Elton John was really encouraging. I don’t want to get into all the details, but suffice to say I listened to him play for a while, then he listened to me play some of his songs (to which I kept forgetting the words, loll!) It was a time of encouragement that seemed to come from God himself

I remember kind of waking up and thinking about it, and while my eyes were shut, I was having this trippy experience of lights flashing, and swirling behind my eyelids. It was beautiful, even kind of heavenly. I take it to be an affirmation from my creator to just keep going and not to worry about it all too much.