good ol' Chris - sure he enslaved some people and isn't the great hero everyone thinks he is. but DARNIT, he's giving me a holiday on Monday. i guess i can forgive him for being who he was.
so you guys know that i like to share my dreams with you.
last night i had the EERIEST dream. or perhaps it was a vision. whenever i have dreams of this caliber (like the waterfall dream - part one and two for example) i wonder if the Lord is giving them to me. i always pray about them afterwards, for clarity, but He never seems to speak on them after the dream is over. or maybe i just can't hear...
so anyways, in my dream, i was with my mother in our old house (didn't i tell you guys that i often have dreams that i'm in the house i grew up in?? i don't get it...) . and we were in my mom's bedroom. all of a sudden, through the window we could see that the sky was clouding over rapidly.
now, i don't mean your average storm clouds. these clouds were pitch black clouds, dark like the thick smoke you'd see coming from a burning building. and they were rolling across the blue sky quickly, faster than i'd ever seen clouds move.
my mother and i immediately went into worship. i began to sing to the Lord and she fell into an almost trance-like state, as if communicating with the Holy Spirit.
all of a sudden, the world outside our home began to fill with water. we looked out the window (which looked into the backyard) and could see the water level rising steadily until our whole house was submerged in water. and through the water in the backyard, walked a woman. i have no idea who she was.
but not one drop of water came into the house. we were entirely safe, dry and protected from what was going on outside (like Noah's ark!). we were a little afraid, not really knowing exactly what was taking place. but we knew God was present. so there was an odd peace.
i remember thinking all kinds of thoughts - wondering if in a few moments, i'd be staring into the face of Jesus; wondering what He would say to me, if He'd be pleased with me; wishing i had prayed more; wishing i had read my Bible more; wondering what He would say to me, and i to Him.
then we looked out the window, and through the sea of water that had submerged our house, a tunnel had formed, literally splitting the water in half. and through that tunnel, we could see something so beautiful that i can't even describe it to you. all i can even formulate with words was that i definitely saw a beautiful hue of blue, better than the blue of the sky. the rest is stuck in my brain... i can't describe it.
then all these people began to appear in the house with us, people that had died. some i had known, and some i've never known nor seen before. there were very young children, a woman that my mother seemed to know, and the most powerful of all for me - the mother of a friend of mine who passed away from cancer several years ago. her smiling face looked so beautiful and just like i remembered her. the room was filled with all these people and voices, every one hugging and greeting one another.
it was an amazing scene. i woke up after that, and i lay there in the middle of the night feeling oddly at peace, and joyful - i think i even laughed to myself as i rolled over and tried to get back to sleep.
the laughter wasn't because anything was funny, but just because my heart felt like laughing.
i have no idea what any of this means. but then again, i still don't have concrete explanations about all my other dreams either. nevertheless, i'll be asking God to shed some light and wisdom on this one. maybe THIS time around, He'll actually reveal something.
:-D
so you guys know that i like to share my dreams with you.
last night i had the EERIEST dream. or perhaps it was a vision. whenever i have dreams of this caliber (like the waterfall dream - part one and two for example) i wonder if the Lord is giving them to me. i always pray about them afterwards, for clarity, but He never seems to speak on them after the dream is over. or maybe i just can't hear...
so anyways, in my dream, i was with my mother in our old house (didn't i tell you guys that i often have dreams that i'm in the house i grew up in?? i don't get it...) . and we were in my mom's bedroom. all of a sudden, through the window we could see that the sky was clouding over rapidly.
now, i don't mean your average storm clouds. these clouds were pitch black clouds, dark like the thick smoke you'd see coming from a burning building. and they were rolling across the blue sky quickly, faster than i'd ever seen clouds move.
my mother and i immediately went into worship. i began to sing to the Lord and she fell into an almost trance-like state, as if communicating with the Holy Spirit.
all of a sudden, the world outside our home began to fill with water. we looked out the window (which looked into the backyard) and could see the water level rising steadily until our whole house was submerged in water. and through the water in the backyard, walked a woman. i have no idea who she was.
but not one drop of water came into the house. we were entirely safe, dry and protected from what was going on outside (like Noah's ark!). we were a little afraid, not really knowing exactly what was taking place. but we knew God was present. so there was an odd peace.
i remember thinking all kinds of thoughts - wondering if in a few moments, i'd be staring into the face of Jesus; wondering what He would say to me, if He'd be pleased with me; wishing i had prayed more; wishing i had read my Bible more; wondering what He would say to me, and i to Him.
then we looked out the window, and through the sea of water that had submerged our house, a tunnel had formed, literally splitting the water in half. and through that tunnel, we could see something so beautiful that i can't even describe it to you. all i can even formulate with words was that i definitely saw a beautiful hue of blue, better than the blue of the sky. the rest is stuck in my brain... i can't describe it.
then all these people began to appear in the house with us, people that had died. some i had known, and some i've never known nor seen before. there were very young children, a woman that my mother seemed to know, and the most powerful of all for me - the mother of a friend of mine who passed away from cancer several years ago. her smiling face looked so beautiful and just like i remembered her. the room was filled with all these people and voices, every one hugging and greeting one another.
it was an amazing scene. i woke up after that, and i lay there in the middle of the night feeling oddly at peace, and joyful - i think i even laughed to myself as i rolled over and tried to get back to sleep.
the laughter wasn't because anything was funny, but just because my heart felt like laughing.
i have no idea what any of this means. but then again, i still don't have concrete explanations about all my other dreams either. nevertheless, i'll be asking God to shed some light and wisdom on this one. maybe THIS time around, He'll actually reveal something.
:-D