Are You Listening?

God Talk

“Someone spoke to me last night,

told me the truth.  Just a few words,

but I recognized it.

I knew I should make myself get up,

write it down, but it was late,

and I was exhausted from working

all day in the garden, moving rocks.

Now I remember only the flavor---

not like food, sweet or sharp.

More like fine powder, like dust.

And I wasn’t elated or frightened,

but simply rapt, aware.

That’s how it is sometimes—

God comes to your window,

all bright light and black wings,

and you’re just too tired to open it.”

                              Dust

                              by Dorianne Laux

        I have been following my dreams for more than thirty years.  I believe with all my heart, and more than that, with all my experience, that God-within speaks to us in dreams.  Carl Jung called that internal guide the Self—with a capital S.  I have never had a dream that was random or without guidance.  When I dream something I don’t like, I am always tempted not to write it down; but I know I’ve then missed an opportunity to learn something about myself—to open my window to God’s ‘black wings.’  I can always depend on that same message coming again as though God is tapping me on the shoulder, saying, “Did you hear me, Jane?  I’m talking to you.”    

        Other people tell me, “I never remember my dreams.” But if you want to work with them and let them inform you, you will begin to remember—it’s a process of tuning-in and recording.  Most of the dreams we recall come just before waking.  If one is very still and replays the dream in the mind before turning over or getting up, the dream is more likely to stick in memory.  Then it must be written down or verbally recorded.  One way of understanding a dream’s message is simply to take it at face value—what did the dream show you, what did the characters say, what did you say?  If the characters in the dream are known by you, what are they like, what do they mean to you, how are you like them?  The dream is about you, not them.  Hold it in your mind and ponder it.  It will reveal itself. 

        I encourage you to begin to tune-in to your dreams.  The God of ‘bright light and black wings’ is speaking directly to you.  Crack the window just a little. 

                              In the spirit,

                              Jane