December 24, 2023
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The Promise of Dreams
by Loree Misch
Dreams. God’s promise. Just enough information to inspire, settle, or concern me, but too opaque for me to charge out to embody it or completely understand it on my own. The rest is up to him. God’s time.
The early morning hours are the sweetest, when I awaken from my deepest sleep. Or that semi-conscious state or liminal moment where I am not fully awake yet, but still tethered in my dream. My most still. Where my ego is not interfering with my thoughts, but rather my consciousness and heart have a chance to possibly intertwine with God and contemplate the dream’s purpose. My mind wakes me as I race to understand the symbols, visions and meaning of my dreams. Like the dreams that foretold an upcoming surgery 18 months before my doctor said, “there is a problem, and we need to operate.” I didn’t like those dreams, but when he said, “you need surgery,” I felt God, my angels, and/or the Holy Spirit were close and was comforted.
What to do with dream information? I sometimes find myself interpreting dreams for the outcome I want, the outcome I wish to avoid, or what’s familiar to me. But I keep asking myself what is God’s will and I am living His purpose? I have a path I wish to travel, but what path does God want me to travel? His way, the way where crooked paths are straighter. Dreams.
“My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked with favor on the lowly state of his servant. Surely from now on all generations will call me blessed, for the Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name; indeed, his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation. He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He has brought down the powerful from their thrones and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty. He has come to the aid of his child Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, according to the promise he made to our ancestors, to Abraham and to his descendants forever. ”
“Loving God,
I sense that all is your creation and everything, and all of us, are being drawn back toward your loving heart. Help me to be a person of peace, To speak about it in an uneasy world, And to live it among the people you have put into my life every day.
Amen.”
