God did not just tell us to love him, but to love our neighbors as well. “Not the neighbors you pick out,” farmer-poet Wendell Berry would say, “but the ones you have” (Berry, Wendell. “The Futility of Global Thinking.” Harper’s Magazine. September 16, 1989, p. 22.) Jesus makes the process simple: start with the people you have…
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Dream Journaling
To grow in this avenue of hearing God’s voice, it’s helpful to keep a dream journal around. This is a good idea for several reasons, the first being pretty obvious: If you don’t write it down, you might forget it—or at least you may not remember the details well enough and you need as many…
Important Symbols in Dreams
While symbols vary greatly both by how God uses them and by how the dreamer perceives it, there are a few other things that are important to pay attention to in dreams. Don’t turn these things into rules or you’ll kill the dream. I don’t even suggest using a dream dictionary (especially a non-Christian one)….
Context for Dream Interpretation
In a dream there’s no need for us to speak a word we don’t know over someone, because God has already spoken that word with His dream. What we need to do is dissect what that dream means and context is often very important to truly understand the dream’s meaning. Had you known that I…
The Spider Dream
One night, I laid my head down to go to bed and simply said, “God, it’s cool how you work in other people’s lives through dreams. It would be nice to experience that myself.” And then, within a short amount of time (that night I think), I woke up from a dream. The main character…
