Pharaoh's Dream and Joseph
Genesis 41: 1-14 NIV
When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile when out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds. After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nile and stood beside those on the riverbank. And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.
He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk. After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted—thin and scorched by the east wind. The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy, full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up; it had been a dream.
In the morning his mind was troubled, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.
Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I am reminded of my shortcomings. Pharaoh was once angry with his servants, and he imprisoned me and the chief baker in the house of the captain of the guard. Each of us had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own. Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted them for us, giving each man the interpretation of his dream. And things turned out exactly as he interpreted them to us: I was restored to my position, and the other man was impaled.”
So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the dungeon. When he had shaved and changed his clothes, he came before Pharaoh.
Continue Reading: Verses 15-40
One Special Dream of so Many
Of the many dreams that God gave I remember just now one peculiar dream. In it my wife and I went to live in a home we don't own. But in the end the stranger's home became our own.
When we migrated to Canada we lived with our daughter, her husband and her two children. Three months after we arrived the couple got into an argument with angry words spoken. It could have been just an ordinary spat of any married couple but this one ended with the husband threatening to kill my daughter and subsequently his banishment.
At that time, police officers were called and the incident ended with the husband taken to custody for a few hours and was told not to go near the house, the wife's workplace and the children's school. He was also not to communicate directly or indirectly with her. Later he was arraigned before the court. Until now the case is pending and awaiting trial as he opted to plead not guilty.
The incident was on the 20th of February and up to this time, August the 24th, the husband has not set foot again in his home. In fact my daughter already has elected to separate from him but keeping custody of the children.
In between they have since sold their two homes and my daughter got us a rented condominium unit where we now live with her two children to which we act as guardians. But she lives apart from us, for in the interim she got a better job than the last one, renting a room, as her work is one to two hour commute.
The husband got himself an apartment, too, where he lives alone.
We now live in a home that we virtually own sans papers. I might add that there are indications that my daughter will permanently live separately from us. In fact, she told my wife that the apartment is hers.
But this is another story to be told.
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