Last night I dreamt that I had asked a homeless woman to move in with me. I don’t remember where I met her, but I vividly remember trying to convince her to live with me and let me take care of her. She agreed to stay for one night. In that dream-like way things happen, all of a sudden she was living with me full time.
I’m not really sure how the logistics were working, since I was still living in the townhouse with Amy and there’s no way my room fits two people. Maybe she was sleeping downstairs on the couch, maybe I was, I’m not sure. Either way, it was clear in the dream that she was staying with me long-term.
It was also clear that this was happening while I was still a first year teacher. I remember wondering in the dream, “How is Amy going to react to this? I feel like she won’t like it,” and “How am I going to get all my work done for school and take care of this woman?” None of this stopped me from having her move in, though. I was absolutely certain that it was what God wanted me to do.
I woke up feeling…weird. That peaceful assured feeling was still with me, and yet I had a lot of questions swimming around. I’m not even really involved with the homeless right now…should I start going to Fellowship’s downtown outpost? I know they’ve been doing some homeless ministry. How would the logistics work? How would Amy react? How would I get done all the work I need to get done? In the dream it seemed like everything was magically working itself out…it definitely wouldn’t be like that in real life.
Then, of course, I was left wondering whether or not I was reading way too much into a dream. I don’t usually have vivid dreams, though (unless they’re about school and all the ways my children could come up with to torture me). Before the school dreams I hardly ever remembered my dreams at all, so this is pretty out of the ordinary. I guess I’ll just pray and wait and look for opportunities to live out the Beatitudes.
P.S. – If you would like to have your heart, mind, and life messed with, listen to the series we’re doing on the Sermon on the Mount. You can find it here. I warn you, though – don’t listen if you don’t want to be challenged. (And Dad, the one where he rips into dispensationalism is the Nov. 15th one.)
Amy
/ January 3, 2010Hey, there is now an empty room there…you never know! =)