Today my 18 month old said "Hi kitty" in her little 18 month old baby talk to my mom & dad's cat and I just thought it was the ABSOLUTELY CUTEST thing ever! She's just so stinking cute I almost can't stand it!
I woke up at almost 5:30 this morning (on a Saturday!) from the STRANGEST dream. And in my quest to get back to sleep I came across this and I thought it was profound: "You have to MAKE life fun. Life isn't just going to be fun for you. You have to CHOOSE to be happy and DECIDE to enjoy life as much as possible. Because life is just too short to get bogged down in the mundane chores, tasks, and responsibilities. Of course we need to pay attention to those chores, tasks, and responsibilities some of the time, but we can't let them take over our lives. It's choosing the PEOPLE over the THINGS in our lives." I know that I worry about SO MANY things in my life (Martha), but that there are really only a couple that are truly IMPORTANT (Mary). Unfortunately, I often let the many overwhelm the important.
In my dream, I was LOST and TRAPPED with a bunch of other people that I didn't know, but separated from the people I love. And I realized that I got myself in that situation because I was following a path that I thought would make me happy and satisfied only to discover that what I left behind was what really made me happy. In my dream, I had made a decision to do something that I thought would make me happy. I saw other people that I respected and admired doing the same thing and they were happy and had good results. But at the last minute, I realized that by following through with my decision, I would be missing out on a lot of what brought me true joy in life and I was trying to back out of it. But the people in charge were trying to prevent me from backing out and the people I respected and admired were trying to talk me out of backing out and the one person there that was the closest to me was not supporting me and was trying to trick me into following through with my decision. I was scared and I didn't feel safe and I didn't feel like I could trust anyone there around me. And then I woke up and I was afraid to go back to sleep...I was afraid that if I went back to sleep that the dream would continue and I would lose control of making decisions for myself that the decisions would be made for me by those people in charge and that one person there that I feared did not have my best interests at heart. It was one of those dreams that made me ask God if He still spoke to people through their dreams or if He was just trying to reveal to me some things in my life that I needed to be aware of and change my thinking about. I did finally go back to sleep after much prayer! But, it was one strange dream!
Update: just read this quote from Melody Ross "we spend way too much of our lives chasing after the wrong things and ignoring the stuff that's right in front of our faces...which usually turns out to be what would have made us happiest all along...there's little lessons all through life that pull us right back to that place....right in front of our face.........we are silly silly humans, we have to be taught the same stuff over and over again!"
