i don't know if it is the ice and snow, Valentine's Day, my frustration with distracting relationships, or the burritos i ate last night but i had one of the worst dreams i have had in a while! it was not a dream where i was running from a bad guy and couldn't get the door to shut behind me or about snakes seeking to strangle me or anything of that sort...it was a dream that has not happeend but happens to many people and most of the time could be prevented if they would take the time to hear from others and hear from GOD.
Here it goes:
We were having a get together at my Grandma and Grandpa Reynolds'...everyone came home with their own "surprise of craziness" from adoptions to marriages...but the biggest one of all that stressed me out continuously through the dream was LANDEN...he came home with this girl who was super dark, depressed, nose ring, and rough...while he was visiting he decided to propose...all the while before i was feeling extremely tumultuous about the situation and everyone else kept trying to appease by saying, "it's just a stage...he'll work out of it...this won't last"...but the proposal set me off! i took Landen into one of the side rooms and nailed into him, "What are you thinking? Do you feel sorry for her? Don't you still feel called into innercity ministry? How are you going to do that when she will be your ministry?". ( i can not anywhere begin to speak of my great frustration in the dream and even now as i write ) He just looked at me indifferently and said, " i love her....don't you understand!". in the dream i never did convince my brother and thankfully it was nothing i ever had had to do because in REALLiFE he had never put himself in that situation...
Although Landen had a rescuing heart he recognized marriage was not the time to rescue...marriage was a time of teaming up with the one who could challenge you and you them, someone you could take on the challenges of life together, someone you could serve God with every breath and that is who God led him to in Joyanna.
Joyanna working with youth in Albany,Ny.
i awoke so stressed and burdened for those who are in relationships detouring them from God's marvelous destiny...those being fulfilled in trying to their boyfriend or girlfriend's savior...those who think they are stuck without a way out... REMEMBER marriage is the COVENANT not the dating relationship! Listen to those who God has put around you, then weigh their advice as you seek for God's will.
God's destiny is never worth sacrificing for a relationship no matter how much you think you love them!
Although Landen had a rescuing heart he recognized marriage was not the time to rescue...marriage was a time of teaming up with the one who could challenge you and you them, someone you could take on the challenges of life together, someone you could serve God with every breath and that is who God led him to in Joyanna.
Joyanna working with youth in Albany,Ny.
i awoke so stressed and burdened for those who are in relationships detouring them from God's marvelous destiny...those being fulfilled in trying to their boyfriend or girlfriend's savior...those who think they are stuck without a way out... REMEMBER marriage is the COVENANT not the dating relationship! Listen to those who God has put around you, then weigh their advice as you seek for God's will.
God's destiny is never worth sacrificing for a relationship no matter how much you think you love them!
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