I’ve been in my dreams lately – having a lot of dreams when I sleep and daydreams when I’m trying to read or I’m trying to fall asleep. Today I’m talking about the dreams when I sleep.

I can’t remember if I’ve shared my dreams here, but I feel like I’ve shared a crazy one a time or two. They get pretty crazy – in case you didn’t know. On a side note, I used to think they were caused by my drinking juice before bed. I haven’t had juice in years so that can’t be the case anymore.

Lately, I’ve been having dreams with a recurring theme. My dad appears in many of my dreams and it’s always like something happens in my life – whether real or something crazy that hasn’t actually happened (yet), mostly the latter – and he’s there.

In my most recent dream, my mom and I had been somewhere while a storm blew through. There was ice covering everything but the road – so it was like houses, trees and the power lines. We were coming through the neighborhood and trees were down, they had fallen on houses and power lines. It was like a flashback happening to 2007 ice storm. Oklahoma being her crazy self had to throw wind into the mix. Pulling onto our street, I see the roof tangled up at the front of the house, hanging off the garage. I ran to the garage door and my dad was there to greet us like nothing weird or crazy was above us. “Dad! You’re not supposed to see the sky through the roof!”

Even though it was crazy to me that the roof over the dining room, living room and garage was so messed up and I was a bit panicked for obvious reasons, I was put at ease because my Dad was there.

How disappointing to wake up to reality though.

Would I want our roof to be ripped off by Mother Nature? No. Something about going through trials with those who put your mind at ease does something though.

Many of my dreams lately have been of this variety. My Dad pops in to put me at ease, to tell me it’s okay, but I wake up and everything isn’t okay because he’s not here.

I don’t dream about people in my life very often, but Dad is a huge presence in my dreams. It’s disconcerting because it’s like this tease of something I want back in my life, but ultimately reality settled in just a few moments later and I can’t go back to sleep.

Do I find security in my Dad? I guess, what daddy’s girl doesn’t?

I wake up and I think I really need to get over this. Who gets over the loss of their parent? Over their father, who was the best dad?

The thing I’ve said before is that you don’t really get over it, you just kind of learn to live with it and ease into a new normal.

It’s been just over 3 and a half years now since I last seen my dad in the flesh. When he wasn’t lying in a hospital bed.

When do you get to the new normal? When do you start feeling like you can handle life without your dad?

Sometimes I think God controls our dreams – maybe that’s a logical assumption since many times in the Bible He does speak through dreams to His people and to those who are not followers.

Another reason to think this is because I have this strong conviction that my security is misplaced, even if just slightly.

Perhaps these dreams are reminding me that, yes I have a father on earth who loved me incredibly well and was amazing, I was blessed in that way, but my Father in Heaven is ever better. This I know. Our Heavenly Father gifted me my dad and there was divine purpose in that. God provides the security, not my earthly father.

I’m not there yet, but it’s eye opening to have dreams that convict you and get you in your feels all at the same time…

My message today…

Your dreams say a lot about what’s on your mind.

If you’re of the dreaming variety… 🙂

What is God saying to you in your dreams? Worry? Sadness? Conviction? Sinful behavior? Forgiveness?

Where is your security found? How can you turn your focus kingdom-ward?

Something we can all be secure in these days is secure in Jesus. He deserves all the glory. I need Him and you do, too. ❤️

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So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us. This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary.

Hebrews 6:18-19