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Dream a little dream…(R.I.P. Corey Haim)

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I’m writing this post an hour later than I usually do…I wonder why… 🙂

Anywho, when I was in high school and was blessed to have a boyfriend (wish didn’t happen very often), I knew that that the death knell of the relationship had rung when I dreamt of them…I don’t know why this happened but it did without fail…looking backing I wonder if this was God’s way of preparing me for the sad inevitable or maybe it was just something my subconscious mind picked up on before my conscious mind did…

Still, I do know that dreams are one of the ways that God chooses to speak to us…It happens over and over again in His Word…God uses dreams all thoughout the story of the birth of Jesus Christ….

But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.  She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.  Matthew 1: 20-21

And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they (the Magi) returned to their country by another route.  Matthew 2:12

When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”  Matthew 2:13

After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.”  Matthew 2:19-20

My father, who also believes in the power of dreams, and I have had numerous discussions dreams, and he has given me tips on how to decode dreams. I have also attended a seminar about dreams in 2004 which was moderated by Dr. Stephen Aizenstat, a clinical psychologist who has conducted dreamwork seminars for over 25 years in the U.S., Europe and Asia.  I was blessed to have him interpret an important dream of mine in front of the whole class. I cannot share it here, but I thank God for using that dream to showing me a bit of my future…I have also read some literature on dreams and have Googled numerous dream interpretation Web sites…

Everyone dreams….but every once in a while, we dream something that stays with us…These are the dreams that we are meant to seriously consider because God may be trying tell us something…Most experts suggest a few tips for dream interpretation…

1. Keep a journal next to your bed. In the morning or in the middle of the night, as soon as you wake up, write the dream down…You don’t want to forget important details that help you decode your dream…

2. The language of dreams is typically symbols….For instance, if you dream of a toilet, you may be flushing someone or something toxic out of your life…Consider what symbols mean to you personally and what they may mean in literature…I love to Google dream Web sites to figure what symbols mean….

3. Consider the events of your life at that moment…I typically have dreams at stressful times of my life, and my dreams often tell me truths that I need to know and act on….

4. And of course, pray and ask God for illumination…

Any thoughts?

P.S. Check out this song, “Dream a Little Dream” by the the great Louis Armstrong…listening to his songs always make me think of episodes of  “Tom and Jerry.” Guess it’s because they used to play those kind of songs in the background…Probably had to be born in the ’70s to remember that… 🙂

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It’s March….Where Are You With Your Visions for 2010?!

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So what’s up y’all? It’s March…time to check in about our goals…How are we doing? A few years ago, I made a vision board hoping that the images would somehow manifest in real life…and to my surprise, even today those images are becoming reality…I haven’t made a vision board since then but I do write down my goals each year…And while all of my goals don’t necessarily come true, I am amazed how many of them do without very much effort on my part sometimes…it’s as if there is magic in writing them down…This principle is illuminated in God’s word…

“And the LORD answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.”  Habakkuk 2:2

Actually, it’s not magic…I think that in writing our goals down or creating a vision board, we input the images and words into our subconscious minds. And then our subsconcious minds go to work to enable us to take the actions that we need to take…And of course, God works on our behalf to make our goals come true if they are in His will for us…

So as I said before, we are three months into the New Year…how am I doing? I’m working it out….How are you doing? Let me know…

Any thoughts?

Check out the video for “Optimistic” by Sounds of Blackness!

You hear the voice of reason
Telling you this can’t never be done
No matter how hard reality seems
Just hold on to your dreams…

As long as you keep your head to the sky,
You can win as long as you keep your head to the sky….

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Chasing a Dream…

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Let’s face it…life can be inexplicably hard…particularly when it comes to achieving your dreams…and to some extent, that is the stuff that dreams are made of…”A man’s reach should exceed his grasp.” (Robert Browning) I was inspired when I read a story about a Georgia Olympian who will compete in the bobsled competition this week. Elana Meyers, who is 25 years old, trained for years to compete in the softball competition in the Olympics. However, in 2006, when she was a senior in college, she discovered that softball would be eliminated from the Olympics roster. But this true athlete did not let this major roadblock stop her. Instead, she began training to compete in  a sport that she had never done before – bobsledding – and now she has achieved her dream to be in the Olympics are after all….below are some of the more notable quotes from the story.

“I don’t consider myself particularly lucky. I don’t win the lottery. I don’t guess how many marbles are in the jar. I’m pretty clumsy. Anything random has probably happened to me. Timing and faith have helped me. I believe God has a plan — and I’ve worked hard to get to this point.”

“It does take a village to reach some kind of dream, and you have to allow that village to help you.”

“Bad things happen your whole life. All you can do is control what you can control and believe in yourself. Trust in whatever god you believe in. You have to rely on other people and allow yourself to be helped.”

Here is what God, through His Word, says about achieving dreams…

I can do everything through Him who gives me strength. Phillipians 4:13

I have seen something else under the sun:  The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong,  nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned;  but time and chance happen to them all.  Ecclesiastes 9:11-13

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Matthew 7:7-9

I have wanted to be a book author since I was six years old…and thirty years later, I am still working to get my first book published…But I won’t give up…My times are in God’s hands (Psalm 31:15)…and sometimes I get jealous when some writers get book after book published or when other writers seem to get  works of lechery rather than works of literature published…YES (eyes nearly rolling out of my head), I know about self publishing…but I don’t want to do it…’kay, thanks…don’t bring it up to me anymore…

Anyway, as I was jogging through my neighborhood yesterday, I imagined myself looking at my published book and signing copies of it for all of my adoring fans… I giggled…it will happen one day…I believe…one day at a time, I feel like going on…

Any thoughts?

Check out Eddie Caine Jr. from “The Five Heartbeats” sing “I Feel Like Going On.”  I love that movie…

P.S. Check out Elena’s blog…