Dreams: Strawberry Fields

Dreams are incredibly fanciful. Floating in and out of one particular fuzzy happening and then to another. At one moment riding in a vehicle to the airport; the next taking no steps, but somehow arriving to a door. Perusing valuable garage sale items, and then rescuing a crawling girl who has fallen down a flight of stairs. And, during one riveting night's sleep, achieving the pinnacle aspiration of chatting with Icon Paul McCartney and Beloved Billy Graham. Experiencing The Beatles' stupor-sounding lyrics from the song, Strawberry Fields Forever: ♫Nothing is real. And nothing to get hung about.♫ Or floating on a Magic Carpet Ride (Steppenwolf).

"Strawberry Fields" fuzz, captured by our 3-year-old

Feelings are attached to dreams. Fears, happiness, heart desires, vulnerabilities, stresses. Sometimes dreams even come true. They might actually prenote or punctuate reality, about a future occurrence. In a slumbered state, the spirit somehow conveys deep information. A dream about a baby boy, bringing joy and warmth, 9 months later becomes reality.

God can especially speak through dreams. Well, unless, just the evening before, we've eaten an entire greasy pizza! (By the way, outdoor activity absorbs vitamin D which encourages dreaming.) But, yes, when walls are removed. When spirits are vulnerable and open. When we are uninterrupted. It is uncanny and almost spooky. We prayerfully seek wisdom or confirmation for a particular life-direction, and a dream awakens and inspires. Tres bon Strawberry Fields sometimes parallel real life.

“In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams" (Acts 2:17).