Analysis Of My Dream Board

Note: My dream board is a large painting that shows wings of an eagle, the eagle that is flying high over bridges. The painting also shows some bridges with road marks, seas and oceans with waves, Sun and clouds in the sky above. The paragraphs answer questions as stated in the syllabus.

God has planted in my heart the desire of sharing times of sorrows, joys, concerns, burdens, prayers, travail, challenges and perplexities or confusion, with the people that are part of it. The images shown in the painting are metaphorical, symbolical and descriptive in nature. Explicating on this, I would say that I am called to fulfill my responsibilities as a leader that goes through challenges and turmoil and, yet soars higher with “wings like eagles,”

Suggesting the idea of integration of the body of Christ is easy but fulfilling it, is rather tough. As the painting shows wings of an eagle, the wings also serve a double purpose, which means they represent dry land (Of the Earth) surrounded by the seas and oceans. The left wing represents one part of the body of Christ, while the right wing represents some more people of the body of Christ that together makes some section of the Church. The left wing shows straight lines, while the right wing shows feathers. The straight lines are the strings of a harp that are symbolic of music and harmony, while the feathers are symbolic of love, care, protection. I want the Church to be different at the end of my ministry by helping people recognize that are going through vital experiences that none is ordinary or, meant to be unheard or unattended. Different people in and outside the Church are experiencing experiences that are contrary to each other in nature. I have enlisted some experiences as: Joy versus sadness, birth versus death, relationships, engagements and marriages versus breakups and divorces, shifting to new homes versus becoming homeless, attaining new jobs and promotions versus losing jobs and being terminated, receiving encouragement versus being thrust with discouragement, receiving healing versus being hospitalized or being sick since ages, fulfillment of dreams versus breaking

I would celebrate the sacraments, and also provide pastoral care to the elderly, sick or those that are dying. I also feel drawn toward ministering people from all backgrounds and age groups like the college students, children and families. Currently, as a Pastoral Intern, I celebrate the sacraments and reach out to all sorts of people, no matter what age group, social and economic background they come from. I use my traits that are metaphorically associated with an eagle and theologically related to those that “wait for the Lord.” I keep my faith, trust and hope in the Lord and gain my strength from God alone. God blesses me with answers of my prayers, interactions with different kinds of people, experiencing God’s grace and being humbled by it. Also, as is the major part of my covenant for this year’s Field Site experience, I am building bridges with people that belong to other faith backgrounds, cultures, communities, ethnicities, races, skin color, professions, and caste systems. The painting very distinctly shows the bridges, seas and oceans representing the eagle in process of reaching out to other places of the world. Meanwhile, there is change of time required to move from one destination to