I will restore all things that were put in the dish

For the past week or so, my dreams have had a peculiar character. Each night, a single sentence (different each night, I think) is repeated again and again, with an accompanying visual display that is not participatory like an ordinary dream, While dreaming, I understand that the sentence is something I have to learn, and that it is being repeated so that I will remember it -- but nevertheless all memory of its content evaporates within a few seconds of waking. So I know that I have had dreams of this kind for the past six or seven nights, but I have no idea what the repeated sentences were.

This morning, though, I acted quickly enough, immediately scribbling down last night's repeated sentence before it had had time to evanesce. The sentence was:

I will restore all things that were put in the dish.

Well! Not quite as obviously profound as one might have hoped. My first association was with this bit in Dr. Seuss's One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish:

Ish is just the Hebrew word for "man." Ish's wish dish is a flat plate (a golden plate, in fact), so the fish appear on it rather than in it. A dish to put things in would have to be deeper, more like a bowl or cup than a plate. And that reminded me of something.

Yesterday morning, I had drawn a Tarot card at random and spent about 15 minutes contemplating it. This is something I do from time to time. It's not a "reading," really, since I don't pose a question or anything. I just get a card and meditate on its symbolism for a bit. Yesterday, this was the card I drew:

Waite's explanation of this image in the Pictorial Key is that the man "contemplates a fish rising from a cup to look at him. It is the pictures of the mind taking form." The pictures of the mind take form. What is imagined materializes. I wish for fish, and I get fish right on my dish.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? (Matt. 7:7-10)

This idea of getting what you wish for is associated with the idea of restoration in the Book of Mormon:

And it is requisite with the justice of God that men should be judged according to their works; and if their works were good in this life, and the desires of their hearts were good, that they should also, at the last day, be restored unto that which is good.

And if their works are evil they shall be restored unto them for evil. Therefore, all things shall be restored to their proper order, every thing to its natural frame—mortality raised to immortality, corruption to incorruption—raised to endless happiness to inherit the kingdom of God, or to endless misery to inherit the kingdom of the devil, the one on one hand, the other on the other—

The one raised to happiness according to his desires of happiness, or good according to his desires of good; and the other to evil according to his desires of evil; for as he has desired to do evil all the day long even so shall he have his reward of evil when the night cometh (Alma 41:3-5).

Whatever you "put in the dish" by wishing for it, it will be restored to you.