30 January 2010

The last couple nights I’ve been dreaming a lot, unsettling dreams. Anyway, I woke up early this morning from yet another dream, and I was really tired. I didn’t want to wake up and get up at all, and I even prayed that You would help me get some peaceful sleep. But at first I couldn’t sleep, and so I figured I’d try praying a bit, but instead of sitting up and turning on the light, I stayed snuggled down in my warm, comfy bed in the dark, and of course I couldn’t focus, and my mind just wandered. Finally, I did fall back asleep, right into yet another unsettling dream – one in which I dreamed I was sleeping and dreaming! And in that dream an alarm clock woke me up – and I realized that You were waking me, calling me to time with You – so I really woke up, sat up and turned on the light – and here I am!

(It was amazingly clear how I knew in my dream-within-a-dream that the alarm ringing was certainly from You! And another thing – I knew, even in the inside-dream, that the alarm ringing was itself part of the dream, not from a “real” alarm clock!).

Well, I’m wide awake now! Thank You! To Your word – Oh dear God, please speak to my spirit by Your Spirit, and teach me Your words, give me Your understanding and knowledge and wisdom, and oh dear God, make it a real, live, active part of my life – please draw me into ever closer, active, walking relationship with You – truly knowing You, loving You, obeying You, worshiping and glorifying You!

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