Recursive Dreams

This morning I had a hard time waking up. I kept snoozing my alarm clock, and would struggle to wake up only to feel my eyes shut and I would fall back asleep. I sat up and picked up my Bible, to try and start my morning reading and start getting up that way. My eyes kept drooping, and I couldn't stay awake. It was just so hard to wake up!

Then I woke up. My Bible was where I had put it the night before. I was lying in bed with the covers pulled up.

In the midst of not being able to wake up, I had dreamt about not being able to wake up!

I remember thinking that the book I was reading wasn't familiar to me, "Memory" or something like that. But somehow my dream-thoughts tried to make sense of that.

There Should Be A Card For That: Word-less

I wanted you to know how much you are loved and cared for, and that I will do everything I can to support you. But I didn't know how to tell you, so I looked for a card that would say it for me.

This was the best I could find.

My thoughts and prayers are with you.

There Should Be A Card For That: Fear

Fear creeps in like shadows,

   threatening to engulf with darkness

     everything

        you love

        you care about

        that matters

     you.

I'll bring a candle and stand with you

    against the darkness.

There Should Be A Card For That: Pain and Scars

It is not the painful experiences themselves that scar us, but rather it is going through those experiences alone. I want you to know, I have no intentions of leaving you to go through this alone.

There Should Be A Card For That: Silence

Words cannot express how I want to share your hurt and pain, your grief and sorrow, your anger and loss. So I'm going to be here in every other way I can, in silent companionship.

And if the day ever comes that you want to talk, to try and put into words what you're going through, I'll be here then, too.

There Should Be A Card For That: Broken Dreams

Life Isn't Fair (And That Sucks)

I heard that Life doesn't seem to be working out the way you had hoped, that you just found out that the dreams you had for yourself (for your family) won't come true. No one ever said life was fair, but I guess we always hope it will be. I wanted you to know that I'll be there with you in this, even just to sit with you in the ashes of your broken dreams.

Job 2:13 "Then they sat on the ground with [Job] for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was."

There Should Be A Card For That: Home Strife

Trouble at Home

Marriages are sacred, and so are the homes and families that they build. If only that meant they were easy, but as the trite saying goes "Nothing worth doing is easy." My heart breaks to hear that yours are in trouble. Know that I hope and pray in every way I can that you and yours are able to sort this out. Know that you aren't the first to go through this, and unfortunately not the last.

I hope you will let me help you find someone who's weathered the storm, so we can grow together and avoid other losses (or casualties? or hurts?).