Would like to hear what members of the forum think or feel about this dream:


Dreamed that I was attending a church service in a big beautiful church. I was sitting with friends. I was determined to lestin what GOD had to say. Now there were a couple of things I felt had to be said to my friends but, I realized I shouldn't be talking, and I forced myself to shut up, sit still, and pay very close attention to what GOD was saying through the preacher on the pulpit.


Then I was touring a really run down house in a bad neighborhood. I had to buy it because circumstances in my life put me in a tough spot (the dream didn't make clear what those were, it was like I eitheir buy this run down house or live on the street). Every person in this neighborhood was continously bent on evil in mind and heart. They only cared about how much they could steal or kill for. They were lazy, wicked and didn't even care about their own children. Because of their wickedness, this very black darkness was in the air. I was the only one who could notice this. What got me that these same people wondered why crime was so bad, like it was some impossible mystery to figure out, when the answer is they themselves are the problem! The people did wickedly, had darkness in them, and didn't recongnize that they were living in darkness. I could see it, because I walked in the light, and therefore knew light from darkness. The family who still had to move out, and who I didn't want to deal with but had to, frustrated me to no end. Each member of the family was no better than the people around them. There was no love or support at all. Each person in the family had to fend for themselves. If any member didn't get what he (or she) wanted, he would yell and scream at another family member to give it to him, and if that didn't work, he would resort to violence. Each member was in competition to dominate another to get what he (or she) wanted. Every one was lazy, and would do no work, just scream till they got what they wanted, or got violent about getting it. They were like animals in a bad way.

The father drank beer like people breathe air. It was his numbing agent. Because of the beer and his wickedness, he'd beat his wife on occasions. The wife was dependent on the man to provide most of the income, so she wouldn't report the violence. Now I was angry because I could not even hear myself think (or talk) while touring the inside of this badly neglected house with all the screaming and yelling. I knew that I was being shown the typical American family. I could see my house in the future, I could see that it was going to be a very nice place as a result of a little extra effort to fix it up. After the "family" left, I finally got peace and quiet when I realized, "OH, NO! I had to park my big yellow car out front! That's like an advertisement to theives to come strip my car!" I checked my car and it was fine. It was like I was invisible to theives because they were blind to the light that lived in me and that surrounded everything I had.


I think the dream says that if you walk in the light, you are safe, even if you appear outwardly vulnerable because darkness cannot comprehend the light so people filled with darkness are blind to your presence, and even your bad situations will come out good because you are filled with light. I'd like to hear what you say.

I think the dream also says or indicates exactly what the world IS. WE all have a darkness inside of us - sin - evil - whatever you wish to call it. As 'normal' people. As people who have accepted Christ as our saviour however, the darkness is pushed aside by the light.

If you live in darkness for a long time, you become used to it - you can see in it. It's like the soul becomes nocturnal - only able to be seen in the night because it hibernates from the day. Your eyes - when you come out in the day after spending say - a week or more in the darkness - are dazzled and hurt by the light. For some people - giving up darkness - sin - is painful - because it has been their life.

You've moved to a run down neighbour hood - an area awash with darkness and evil....despair maybe? All it takes is one single person to show the light.....all it takes is one person to make a change to affect others around them. If you take your light our from under a 'bush' - it will shine all the more brightly. A candle will lighten a dark room.

If you 'do up your house' so that the paint is new and clean, the windows are not broken, and are clean, the steps are fixed and not broken - and the roof no longer leaks....if you clean the inside up and make it look beautiful - it may take time - but - some people may feel they need to do the same. Each time they graffitti your fence - clean it off and re-paint it. Show the light. Show that the darkness isn't frightening you.

Maybe - there are people living in the darkness and behaving like that to fit in - not because they like it.....fear makes them conform to the others around them. IF they have someone else who doesn't conform and who shows another way - maybe - you will soon have 2 or 3 other people wishing to show a light in the darkness.



Just my opinion.

thanks madmikke very well spoken