In the dream, I was standing under a tree in front of an old two-story, antebellum home. The house had a beautiful wrap-around porch. Sitting on the front porch were seven Generals, two of which were women, and one was George Washington. (I don’t know who the others were.) I knew they were Generals because they all had on their uniforms with their metals and stars.
Each General was sitting in a rocking chair. Some of them had walkers in front of them. The others had a walking cane hanging on their chair.
I saw George Washington get up, and with a walking cane, he walked over to a table that was situated beside the door of the house. He looked down and began to carefully study some papers that were on the table, and then he returned to his rocking chair.
I somehow knew that each one of these Generals were thinking, “There is more fight left in me! I’m not done!” But they each had their heads hung down as they just sat there, rocking in those chairs.
On the lawn in front of them were hundreds of younger people, who were speaking to the Generals. They were saying things like, “We’ve got this! You’ve trained us, and you can just sit there and retire. We don’t need you now. We can do this without you.”
Way out in front of this house, I could see that a major battle was taking place. It was like a battle in the Revolutionary or Civil War. The Generals were looking out at that battle and thinking, “There’s more fight left in me!”
But this younger crowd had the Generals convinced that it was best and safer for the them if they just stayed seated in those rocking chairs on the porch of this house while they went out to deal with the battle. They continued to say, “We’ve got this. We can do it without you! Just stay here and be safe.”
Behind the younger crowd there was a fence, and beyond that fence was yet another group of people, who were trying to get a message through to the Generals, but the younger crowd wasn’t allowing the Generals to hear what they were saying. This other crowd was saying to the Generals, “We can’t get through that (pointing to the battle) without you! We need you to lead us through that!” And they were saying, “There are two more battles beyond that one, and these (referring to that younger crowd) don’t know the strategies well enough to lead us through.”
So, in order for the Generals to hear their message, some started getting on the shoulders of others so their voices could be heard over the crowd, and they were saying to the Generals, “We need you to take your place and lead us. These don’t know yet how to lead us. They have the abilities (meaning the physical strength), but they don’t know the strategies.”
Finally, George Washington heard those other people, and he looked up. He cupped his hands around his ears so he could hear more clearly what they were saying. Someone then shouted to him, “Look beside you! You’ve got the battle plans.” He looked down beside him, and there were two rolled up parchments. Each parchment was maybe 2½ or 3 feet tall. These parchments had precise, detailed battle plans drawn up on them.
He then instructed the other Generals to listen to what those people were saying. Each one of them cupped their hands behind their ears and heard the people say, “Look beside you! You’ve got the battle plans.” And each one of them also had the two rolled up parchments beside them. Each set of parchments contained the same strategies, and each General had the strategies.
George Washington then said, “We’ve got to get up and do something with these battle plans.” And each General rose to their feet. One asked, “How do we do this?”
Washington then stood up and stepped to the edge of the porch and spoke to everyone there, saying, “We’ve got to combine our efforts.” He then addressed the younger crowd, saying, “You are deceived if you think you can do this without us.” These words were not spoken in arrogance, but it was more of a warning. He then held up those parchments and said, “These are the battle plans, and none of us can do anything without these plans. But you don’t yet know how to ‘govern’ the plans.”
So, each General took each of those parchments containing the plans, and walked over to the table that was beside the door. This was the same table that George Washington had walked over to at the beginning of the dream. I then realized the papers that he had been “studying” on the table were the same battle plans that were contained in those parchments. Seeing those battle plans was what had provoked the thought in these Generals at the beginning of the dream: “There’s more fight left in me!”
So, each General then unfurled their parchments. All of the people—both the younger crowd and those beyond the fence—came together as one unit and moved closer to the porch, and using those plans, the Generals began to “govern” the people. They left their walkers, walking canes, and rocking chairs, and it was as if new life came in them. They stayed on the porch, but they led the people with those strategies to know how to gain the victory in the battle that we could see, and also in the two battles that were still to come.
That was the end of the dream.
Gina Gholston
Dreamed: October 13, 2020
