Thursday, February 4, 2010

Jump off a Balcony!

I've been having a whole lot of really weird dreams lately. On Monday night, I had a dream about the Coca-Cola polar bears and some penguins out on Harding's front lawn in the snow. Then on Tuesday night I had a dream about being on free travel in Germany- I was spending the night in a grocery store and I met these 15 year olds from Dallas.

I don't know if it's because I've been sick and my head is like unbalanced or something or if it has to do with the medicine I've been taking before bed or what, but for whatever reason, I've had quite a bit of REM sleep going on.

I didn't sleep very well on Tuesday night I was really tired on Wednesday during the day. Well, it was Wednesday, which is nap day by nature, so during the break between the end of chapel and my 1:00 class, I crashed for about 2 hours. I slept better in those 2 hours than I had the night before. And yes, I had another weird dream. In this dream, I was sleeping. Yeah. Like, it was night time and I put on my pajamas and got in bed. Well, I've been praying a whole lot about getting an internship this summer and that God would place me where I need to be. On Tuesday I can calls from 2 churches, neither or which I wanted to work with, that said they had hired someone else. Should have been no big deal, but because they're the only ones I've actually heard from, I started to get really nervous. I mean, what am I supposed to do this summer if none of these people call me back? Why does it always seem like God never wants me to do the things that I want to do, even when my motives are good. And I know when my motives are good....

That was sorta my crazy thought process. Anyway, in this dream I had, I went to sleep. praying that God would align my will with His own. Actually I was probably praying that HE would align His will with mine. So in my dream, I had a dream. I think. It was more like I fell asleep in my dream and then my dream turned into a scene from a movie.

Aladdin (disguised as a prince) and Jasmine are on her balcony. She's angry with the way he's been acting towards her and tells him to jump off. So he does and, of course, is caught by the magic carpet. When Jasmine sees what happened and as she is looking the magic carpet over, Aladdin asks her if she wants to go on a ride with him. She asks "Is it safe?" and he responds with, "Do you trust me?"

And so then I woke up to Owl City reminding me that it's time to get up and get ready for my 1 o'clock.

This can only mean two things. One of them is that the human brain is really nifty and can remember beloved, though cheesy and sappy segments from disney movies that you haven't seen in many years. The other is that everything is God's hands. And it works out for the better. But it's my choice to be accepting of His plan and be satisfied in it.

And sometimes God's voice sounds like Aladdin's. :)