As I awakened this morning, my dreams from the night before flooded my memory!
I had dreamed that I was at a very nice event/conference with other young ladies and as we wrapped up .... I realized that I would need a ride back to the town I was from. Having agreed with no hesitation of thought, I willingly accepted at 1st-offer the ability to catch a ride back with these 2 sweet ladies to get back home.
I never gave consideration to the type of vehicle we would be riding in, as these ladies were sweet, their character Godly, and their disposition loving, and their demeanor thorough.....
However when we went outside to the parking lot, to my horror, I saw what looked like in open-topped old little go-cart that they were hopping in the front seat of and I guess I was supposed to hop in the back of to 'catch a ride'!!!
With terror, I immediately exclaimed, "Good Lord! What did I get myself into?!"
There was no other mode or transportation home....All others had pretty much left the parking lot and this 'ride' did not 'look' secure, nor 'comfortable', nor 'look' safe; as we would have to travel many miles across state lines not just through one city..... to get home! This mode of transportation can't be IT!!! The one who jumped in 1st said, "Come on! We can't hesitate! The longer we wait, the later we will get back and it's a long drive and it's beginning to rain!"
Yet as I stood paralyzed in shock of disbelief .....
The fact that they were serious and trusting this low-to-the-ground old go-cart or dune-buggy of sorts to get us back safely left me standing there...still considering..... as I ended up yelling out, "HEY! You left me!"
Not wanting to be Left Behind as they had already began to roll down a steep hill and up another leaving, they turned around and rolled back to pick me up.....
Upon circling back, retracing their steps to get me- I amazed at myself, jumped in the back! For I did not want to be Left Behind!
What I discovered as I hopped in the backseat of this so-called 'car' was immediately they assumed the position of rest ....
They were laying their heads back as the car began to just move on its own, and inside it was it really odd that it seemed to have this smart technology to know exactly where it was going without them having to navigate, steer, look or anything!
Though its outer exterior was so opposite....
As we traveled I remember asking in the dream, "Hey are you going to drive this thing or are you going to let it just roll on it's own????....
They both replied in unison to me "let it roll!"
..... They said further, "This car was designed for women like us, because the maker knew what we needed in life.... the maker knew one day we would need rest, and that we would need something that can navigate on its own- without our having to always take the wheel!"
"This car knows how to get us home safely without us having to keep our foot on the pedal, navigate or steer....."
"Its Powered by GPS...."
It navigates itself and will safely and exhaustively provide us the means home."
I begin to reflect in my dream on the Lord how he Cares about every little detail in our life. He provides for us. He directs us. He drives us, and He gets us where we need to be without our help when we put our Total Trust and Rest in Him! \0/ Selah!
Long story short and needless to say the end of this story must have been a successful one!
As I woke up shortly after this, I remembered that no ill-event took place in my dream even though the path I remembered throughout the dream was at night time, and at times with rough visibility and even at times ominous shadows along the way outside the car.
As I vividly remember the dream I specifically am amazed at how the other two women rested in the car all the way, and eventually I fell off to sleep myself in this go kart until I woke up to the morning light of my Tuesday....today!
Also the fact that I made it home safely from point A to point B during this long journey, in what appeared to be a fragile car, was an amazing thing! In the midst of rain, during a dark night in a vehicle that felt totally non-controllable by me, in my dream there was no bad memory of any bad event that happened! We did not even get wet from this rain, but we arrived safely....
I remember, as I awakened peacefully in my bed in ATL, Georgia....to my Tuesday morning!
So much like our Lord to remind us even in our dreams, that He provides for us. What we need in that moment.... though the vehicles may not always be attractive, though the path, nor the means to go along a path, may not look safe or even more so may not look or be comfortable... Our Lord always promises a way, and it's in Him and through Him that as we rest, trust and even at times put our minds to sleep and focus and meditate on Him, putting our faith on Him .... that He is God that He gets us from point A to B!
As I awake this morning I awake with a new sense of energy. I awake with a new sense of trust and I awake with the new sense of release from NOT having to drive myself, or to try to figure everything out, or DO everything!
Instead...I can know that truly our Lord is the author and of finisher of our Faith! And He who begun this work in me is faithful to the day of Christ to complete IT in me, my family, and those closest to us. In Him truly, we live, move, and have our being... 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 (1 Corinthians 10:13, Philippians 1:6, Acts 17:28)
