The high today is going to be 37 degrees. (I can't believe I'm actually going to say this.) I'm excited about that. No really, I was actually almost giddy!
I will share with you the reason why I am joyous about 37 degrees... last week it was -11 and with wind-chill it was like -19. Yeah, that's why I'm freakin' giddy!
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Searching
I frequently have dreams that feel "movie-like" to me and tend to be about being someplace where I feel the journey to get where I'm going is treacherous and confusing. Now matter how dangerous it appears, I am unscathed by my surroundings. It doesn't mean that I am not scared. I just know somehow I will make it through.
Last night I dreamt that I was wandering in a huge nursing facility. Even though I was wandering I didn't feel scared. I felt like I was searching for my Dad but I felt safe and peaceful. Another part of the dream I was outside and I saw a swimming pool and a winding staircase. My dreams don't always make sense but sometimes reading about their meaning is like a light-bulb turning on. Below are some interpretations of the key parts I could remember.
To dream that you are wandering, suggests that you are searching and looking for some direction in your life. You are lacking motivation. Alternatively, it represents a transformation.
To see a pool of water in your dream, indicates that you need to understand and deal with your emotions. You need to dive right in. Alternatively, a pool may indicate your need for cleansing. You need to wash away the past.
To dream that you are walking up a flight of stairs, indicates that you are achieving a higher level of understanding. You are making progress into your spiritual/emotional/material journey. It also represents material and thoughts that are coming to the surface.
To see spiral or winding stairs, signify growth and/or rebirth.
To dream of antiques, represent your time honored values, tradition, wisdom and inherited personal characteristics. It symbolizes something genuine or proven. Some things in your past are worth holding onto or worth keeping.
I am on a journey of discovery. I don't know where it will lead but I have faith that God is guiding me into something greater and more rewarding than I can comprehend.
Ecclesiastes 11 : 5 - 6 As you do not know what is the way of the wind, or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child, so you do not know the works of God who makes everything. In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not withhold your hand; for you do not know which will prosper, either this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
Last night I dreamt that I was wandering in a huge nursing facility. Even though I was wandering I didn't feel scared. I felt like I was searching for my Dad but I felt safe and peaceful. Another part of the dream I was outside and I saw a swimming pool and a winding staircase. My dreams don't always make sense but sometimes reading about their meaning is like a light-bulb turning on. Below are some interpretations of the key parts I could remember.
To dream that you are wandering, suggests that you are searching and looking for some direction in your life. You are lacking motivation. Alternatively, it represents a transformation.
To see a pool of water in your dream, indicates that you need to understand and deal with your emotions. You need to dive right in. Alternatively, a pool may indicate your need for cleansing. You need to wash away the past.
To dream that you are walking up a flight of stairs, indicates that you are achieving a higher level of understanding. You are making progress into your spiritual/emotional/material journey. It also represents material and thoughts that are coming to the surface.
To see spiral or winding stairs, signify growth and/or rebirth.
To dream of antiques, represent your time honored values, tradition, wisdom and inherited personal characteristics. It symbolizes something genuine or proven. Some things in your past are worth holding onto or worth keeping.
I am on a journey of discovery. I don't know where it will lead but I have faith that God is guiding me into something greater and more rewarding than I can comprehend.
Ecclesiastes 11 : 5 - 6 As you do not know what is the way of the wind, or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child, so you do not know the works of God who makes everything. In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not withhold your hand; for you do not know which will prosper, either this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Hope and Patience
Something made me get up last night as I was drifting off to sleep and felt I needed to read my bible. In my bible cover I have a journal that I've been writing in for a decade! I turned to the first page and I realized then why I needed to get up.
"To hope means to desire with expectation of fulfillment. God is raising our level of expectations and increasing our hope for the future so that our faith may be activated to free us from what we see, strengthen us and give us peace."
Below is a portion of a devotional from Jay Kesler:
[Longsuffering] This quality of courageous patience is one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5 : 22 - 23). In the King James version, the term is "longsuffering." It seems that significant character change is not possible without pain; look what it cost Christ to buy us the ability to change. Perhaps it's not possible for us help another person grow without pain, either. But there's a special power in the kind if suffering that takes place when a person stands, day in and day out, for what is right. It's the kind of power Jesus displayed when he was reviled but did not revile back. The person who desires change doesn't try to force it, but chooses to live the best way he or she can under the circumstances, trusting in God for daily strength and the final outcome.
2 Corinthains 4 : 7 - 18
Isaiah 40 : 29 - 31
I've been feeling overwhelmed by thoughts of my Dad. Mostly memories and dreams. One dream inparticular was Dad making pancakes like when we were kids. He would ask us which ones we wanted and we would deliberate and make our decision. Sometimes silver dollars, or "Pink Panther", or Mickey Mouse but most of the time it was regular ones because there was a lot of hungry people to feed and they were the quickest. I have a very strong hope to move back to California and be with my family and take care of Dad. I need to be with him as much as he needs me. God's timing is better than anything I could have tried to make happen by myself though.
I've been feeling overwhelmed by thoughts of my Dad. Mostly memories and dreams. One dream inparticular was Dad making pancakes like when we were kids. He would ask us which ones we wanted and we would deliberate and make our decision. Sometimes silver dollars, or "Pink Panther", or Mickey Mouse but most of the time it was regular ones because there was a lot of hungry people to feed and they were the quickest. I have a very strong hope to move back to California and be with my family and take care of Dad. I need to be with him as much as he needs me. God's timing is better than anything I could have tried to make happen by myself though.
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