I had much difficulty getting to sleep last night - just wasn't sleepy, but to avoid questions, stayed in bed. Tossing and turning I finally dozed some, and I had this really strange dream happen. I like to write down my dreams - journal in a sense - just to reflect at another time on what it could possibly mean. Most times they have meant absolutely nothing that I could think of. This one is probably one of those. Let's see what I can remember about it....
I was in a room, much like an office, when my latest new boss - who I actually start supporting today, come to think about it - walked in. She asked me to sit down and proceeded to share information about the department we are in. I have suspected the past few months that this department is being absorbed into the bigger division. Why? Because new titles given to my two new bosses do not reflect that department in the announcements. This new boss shared that the department was indeed being absorbed into a 'new' department of the division, in that it was being taken into a new direction. The focus was going to be different than what it has been.
Here's where the dream gets confusing. The newest boss states she has taken a position within the company in another part of the division, effective immediately. Then she gets up and walks out. My favorite boss comes in and she shares pretty much the same information, but that she is being told she has to move in this direction - or leave. She has that decision to make.... and she was leaning towards just retiring and walking away. She will be 62 this year. Financially they can afford it as she and her husband followed Dave Ramsey's money management system years ago and have been out of debt for years, and saving and investing. Her husband has been retired for about 10 years, I think. Her decision, to just retire, was one we had talked about numerous times, but here was the reality (in my dream).
Which left me with a decision... what was I going to do? Was I going to try and find something within the company so that I could continue working... or was I going to walk away and finally get to retire... and then I woke up. So then I laid there thinking about that dream and what could it possibly mean. Perhaps that answers my thoughts of my department being absorbed into the bigger division. But still, it was just a dream. A deram that has no answers, at this time.
Will I ever get to retire? I don't know. I often laughed over the years that I would be found at my desk when I die, never getting to enjoy life the way I have always dreamed it should be. I"m learning not to wallow in my pain, but to live where I am planted. I do what I can, and God knows where my heart is. I haven't been able to make the difference I have wanted to make, but He won't hold tha against me. Perhaps those were just my dreams and not His. I need to relax and let God direct me to the Plans He has for me. Plans to bring me hope and a future.
I choose today to put my hope and my future in Jesus. I can do nothing in my own power. I can't right wrongs; I can't change things that have happened; I can't bring back to life that which is dead. But by the power of Jesus Christ, dead and dry bones will rise, they will be covered with new skin, and those dry bones will live.
Are you seeing dry bones in your life? Are there things that no longer have life in them? Do you feel your spirit had been defeated and sucked out of you?
Ezekiel 37:1-10.... The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. He asked me, "Son of man, can these bones live?"
I said, "Sovereign Lord, you alone know."
Then he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones and say to them 'Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones; I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. I will attach tendons to you, and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord'.
So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and bones came together, bone to bone. I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath was in them.
Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to it, 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.'" So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them, they came to life and stood on their feet - a vast army.
Ask Jesus to stand your dry bones up and blow a fresh breath of His Spirit into and over you. Ask Him to cover you with 'new skin', and cause you to live and have new life. He will do it. He will. He is just waiting for you to ask Him.
Will you?
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