Will I dream?
That line is from 2010: A Space Odyssey” where Dr. Chandra is shutting down HAL, in an effort to see if he can reactivate HAL 9000 (2001). HAL allows this process, only after asking that question.
At that time of the 1970s, computers were bulky machinery that filled a gymnasium. Then my computer seemed unfathomable and
certainly something unattainable.
But here its relative sat, on
my desk in front of me. It did not have
independent, self-created-as far as I knew. But it sure had strong will, destructive
will, as I discovered back in mid-December.
Have you ever seen
that dreaded black screen with squared white letters telling you that your
computer has inexplicably shut down?
Over and Over? If you have, then
you are nodding your head at this very minute.
That happened to me on December 20, 2012. So long ago.
My computer had been
in the shop, and then returned to me clean and humble. Will it last?
I don’t know. But I wonder, as it
sat on the work table with other broken computers, did it dream?
If it did, it had nightmares, terrible destructive nightmares.
When my brothers died, I dreamed of them. Odd dreams mind you, but I was close to them. Robert was my age, born in January 1951, and I was born in December 1951. He died in 1997 from a horrible brain tumor.
Bill died in in 1999, at age 44. His death was the result of septic poisoning after back surgery.
Their dreams were about faith and death. Mom said that Robert told them as they drove him to the hospital that he was going to see Jesus that day. I know that he did, God confirmed that to me.
Bill? The day before his surgery he called me. He told me that he was ready to die, if that was what God willed for him.
Trust, faith, eternal life and believing is what we were promised. God always keeps His Promises.
Even to a computer?
