These Dreams

Dreams provide us an opportunity to know our inmost thoughts. They are also one way that God speaks to us and through us. Scripture records many instances of dreams, including those of Joseph and Daniel.

What do you do with your dreams? Many times we can’t even remember them, never mind learning of or hearing from God through them!

In his book Dreams and Spiritual Growth, Louis Savary helps us develop a dream work exercise. The first step is to have a journal by your bed so that you can record these experiences upon waking. If you don’t write them down when you have a fresh recall, you’ll lose much of the richness of the dream. The next step is to organize the material along the acronym “TTAQ”.

Give your dream a title T
Give your dream a theme T
Record the emotions experienced in the dream, the affect A
Record the questions that the dream creates for you Q

Tell God that you’ll listen if He chooses to communicate with you through dreams. Don’t rush to interpret them either; let the dream permeate your soul and listen to what God may be saying. The whole thing might be more about learning to be attentive to Jesus through your dreams that getting ‘dictations from God’.

Following this format will also provide you an opportunity to share more clearly with others your dreams.

Spare a little candle
Save some light for me
figures up ahead
Moving in the trees
White skin in linen
Perfume on my wrist
And the full moon that hangs over
these dreams in the mist
Darkness on the edge
Shadows where I stand
I search for the time
On a watch with no hands
I want to see you clearly
Come closer than this
But all I remember
Are the dreams in the mist
These dreams go on when I close my eyes
Every second of the night I live another life
These dreams that sleep when it's cold outside
Every moment I'm awake the further I'm away

Is it cloak 'n dagger
Could it be spring or fall
I walk without a cut
Through a stained glass wall
Weaker in my eyesight
The candle in my grip
And words that have no form
Are falling from my lips

These dreams go on when I close my eyes
Every second of the night I live another life
These dreams that sleep when it's cold outside
Every moment I'm awake the further I'm away

There's something out there
I can't resist
I need to hide away from the pain
There's something out there
I can't resist
The sweetest song is silence
That I've ever heard
Funny how your feet
In dreams never touch the earth
In a wood full of princes
Freedom is a kiss
But the prince hides his face
From dreams in the mist
Heart

Joel 2:28-29
"Then after I have poured out my rains again, I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions. In those days, I will pour out my Spirit even on servants, men and women alike.