God's ways are so...amazing

Ya know how you hear people say that God spoke to them? Well, I had never experiened that, even though I believed it happened. A night ago, I was sleeping peacefully but I got up at 4 to go to the bathroom. Usually I can fall back asleep fairly quickly, but this night it just was not happening. I tried everything! First I just layed there to see if sleep would come, but to no avail. Then I tried counting sheep but after counting about 4 sheep, I began to get bored of that so I decided to read my book. I read for quite a while and after a trip downstairs, I was tired enough to finally sleep.

A few weeks ago, a family that is really good friends with ours has a daughter that just graduated from college so we went to the party and at the party each of us was asked to give her advice as she is venturing out into the work force. Well this all came back to me in my dream except their son (who is my age) was having a birthday party and we were again asked to give him advice (I don't know why, but all I can say is it was a dream!). When it came to my turn, I was lost as to what advice to give when all of a sudden, it came to me. Don't waste your time. WHAT!?! Why should I be giving him that advice when I don't even follow it myself?

When I woke up from the dream I had this sense that through my confusing dream God was trying to speak to me. I had an epiphany! Recently, I had read in Blue Like Jazz that one of the ways the devil gets us off the path of following Christ is to divert our attention, getting us to waste time. There are many ways to waste time, but I find that the way in which I waste time the most is in what I think about. Many times what I think about on a daily basis will not matter a year from now, month from now or even tomorrow. So my dream challenged me to think about things that do matter and that will last.