dream six

Everyone is standing in the kitchen, and there are dishes all over the counters and filling the two-part sink. Rali is there with a friend (who is undefined). The room is filled with people that Rali knows (most of whom are undefined), who are all doing about the same thing.

Rali and friend are going through Rali's dishes. She is about to get rid of everything because everyone is about to go to Heaven. Then, someone says, "No, you can take them with you if you want to."

At first, Rali is confused by this because no-one is allowed to take anything to Heaven with them. But then, she ignores that and gets excited about keeping things. She starts looking at all the dishes and starts to think about which ones she would really like to take with her. Then, she realizes that this is ridiculous. She says, "I'm not going to keep anything."

Friend asks if she is sure and starts holding up dishes to see if she wants them. Rali keeps saying things like, "Nope, don't want that one" and "Get rid of that too; ditch it".

Then, someone else says to Rali, "You can keep them because Heaven is going to be just more of what we are doing now." And someone else interject, "Like three times as much."

Rali objects to this, but a high school friend says, "Well, the Bible does call it the Land of (Much) Oats."

Rali, then, responds with, "I don't think we will all just be eating a ton of stuff all the time in Heaven. I'm pretty sure it's all metaphor. Like the land of milk and honey. It's not like when they got tehre, there was milk and honey flowing in the river. It was a metaphor."

Rali has been getting frustrated by eveyone up until this point. She now gets even more flustered because she can't remember if it was called "the land of milk and honey" or "the land of the river of milk and honey". She tries to correct herself a few times before her Dad steps in and corrects her, telling her it was "the land of milk and honey".

Then, suddenly, there is a wasp in the kitchen. Rali is the only one who notices at first and cries out, saying she can't stay in the kitchen anymore. She runs out into the family room. Rali's dad then says very casually, "Oh, it's a wasp?". And, he kills it with his hand.

Rali comes back toward the kitchen and looks at the flattened wasp. As she does, she thinks: Of course! Because it's a wasp and wasps bite instead of sting, you can kill them with your hand. But, you have to be really quick and careful because if you miss, wasps are vicious and they will definietly bite you.