365 Day Photo Challenge Day 9

365 Day Photo Challenge
Day 9

Last night I had a dream that I was floating down the river in a boat. It brought me back to when my husband and I took our boys canoeing this past summer. It was so calm and so peaceful (minus the kids crying because they thought we were lost!) 

Have you ever interpreted a dream before? I have and I learned from the best! My husband is actually REALLY great at interpreting dreams. 

Normally I don't remember dreams. Sometimes I have these crazy dreams, but they don't feel significant to me. But there are dreams that I know from the moment I wake up that MEAN something. I believe not only do they represent an important part of your life but I believe that God speaks to us through dreams.

We talk talk talk to God. We get busy and move move move with our day to day lives that we don't stop to LISTEN to God NOW. Sometimes the only way for Him to get through to us is making himself present in our dreams.

To dream of a river represents negative situations in life. It represents obstacles we have to face as humans. We are confronting unfamiliar or unwanted situations but situations that are important in our life. To dream of FLOATING down a river represents NAVIGATING those unfamiliar and unwanted situations. How well you navigate down that river reflects how you deal with the problems in your life.

In my dream last night the waters were a little rocky. The boat was tossing and turning and I found myself holding onto dear life, trying to keep myself from falling in! But there came a point during my journey down this river that the waters calmed down and I was able to navigate without any problems.

Life has been full of difficult situations for me, no doubt! Reflecting on this dream I have come to realize that I have not been handling the unfamiliar situations well. I've been trying to navigate the boat on my own, keeping myself from falling in and drowning in the waters. I have tried and tried to deal with things on my own, but have only cried out to God for help when I completely fail on my own.

Have you ever been through a situation like that? Where you have tried SO HARD to navigate that boat on your own, but you get tossed around and around? You go back and forth, back and forth. But have you just STOPPED and asked God to help you? Don't wait until you are ready to crack. Ask God for strength NOW and you will be able to deal with your problems as they come.