Two nights ago I woke up from a dream that I was convinced
was reality; it was so vivid that I could recall all the details of it as if it
were happening right before my eyes. I dreamed that I had a baby. Yup, a little
baby boy. He was about a year old and wearing this little white onesie (I could
go on and on about the details of it all but I’ll just try to hit the
highlights.) I had brought him to see my family for the first time and we were
all going camping together (a family tradition of ours). I was having trouble
reconciling the fact that I had a child because I didn’t feel ready; I wasn’t
married and wasn’t prepared to take on the role of a mother yet. But I remember
thinking that I needed to NAME this baby – I was adamant about that and trying
to figure out a suiting, Biblical name for my little boy. I kept thinking that
he should be named Noah but I wasn’t positive… and then I woke up. I had to
convince myself for a few minutes that it was just a dream and that I didn’t in
fact have a child waiting for me in the next room. It’s still unreal how vivid this
thing was.
I was talking to one of my friends about it later because I
could sense there was some deep significance in there, and he said that it was
a prophetic dream. SWEET! He said that God is birthing something new in my life
and I’m figuratively “pregnant� with this new thing or new ministry. He said it
seemed so real because God is really doing it! It’s about to happen! I told him
about how my family was present in the dream and he said that was significant
to the fact that people I love who are close to me will be present when this
thing is actually birthed. But it won’t be as much about the actual people –
it’s more about what they represent. So since my family represents strength,
faith, encouragement, support, and love, that is what’s going to be surrounding
me when this NEW THING happens! YAY! It’s pretty sweet confirmation of what God
is doing because I can definitely feel Him moving in me; I don’t exactly know
what He’s up to, but I’m ready to give birth! 🙂
Something else that’s pretty amazing is the fact that Brittany
had the SAME dream right before leaving on the race! She dreamed she had two
babies and was trying to come up with a name for them as well… strangely
similar to mine. God is surely doing something in us… and I can’t wait to see
what comes out! 🙂
