...and your sleep will be sweet

Interesting dreams last night.

The best part about it was that the Lord gave me sweet and restful, sleep -- which sent me to Google asking where I'd heard the "sweet sleep" phrase before. Ah yes, Proverbs. Of course.

I love those types of nights when I don't wake up a 2:33 a.m. or 3:47 a.m or 5:55 a.m. and lay around wondering why God has awakened me.

No, last night felt like one of those nights where I slept straight through the whole night -- and I didn't even want to get up this morning. My son pulled my wrist to force me out of bed around 7:33 a.m. or later.

The teenage girl, the book, the building and the planes flying nearby

Last night's sleep was so good and deeply REM-ish that I remembered some of my movie-like dreams.

During one of the dreams I was in a high-rise building, I guess it was a hotel room, perhaps, with my family -- I really specifically remember my son there -- I think my husband and daughter may have been nearby.

There were all sorts of interesting planes flying really close by the building. It was beautiful and a little scary all at once.

Then I was back near my home and I walked into a hair dressing salon that's no longer really there in real life (at least not like it was) and the friend of the woman who owned the shop refused to do my hair, even though I think I had an appointment.

So I turned around and talked to a teenaged friend, and she said she was on her second affair with a married man.

"God says to get the book that fell between the shelves," I told her, asking, "Does that make any sense?"

"Yes," she said. "It was the book about the second married man."

After that, my husband sat me down and I knew he had something important to tell me. I hoped it wasn't really bad news, and it wasn't. He just said he'd been told to "go west" -- and that meant we were moving to Houston.

I was ready to go.

Bald eagle carries off a hawk in his claws, right above my head

I'm thinking of an interesting dream I had last night --- one of several, but the only one that drove me to Google looking for more information about hawks and bald eagles and the Bible and more. In my dream, I was walking in the middle of a row of apartments down a sidewalk -- perhaps like those apartments where Trayvon Martin walked. It was daytime, and right above my head I witnessed a big bald eagle carrying a hawk in his claws, flying right above me, within inches. It's no secret that in real life I love to watch a pair of nesting eagles near us and their eaglet babies that I want to see soon, I hope. But I didn't know if bald eagles really attack hawks like that -- and I guess they do, but it's rare. I know lots of mentions of eagles in the Bible, like you will mount up on eagle's wings and such. Hawks are also mentioned in the Bible, in Job and other books. As for eagles and hawks together in the Bible? Well, that one is more of a mystery. This is something that I'm curious about the meaning behind. Hopefully it's something good -- that bald eagle with the hawk in its talons flying right above my head last night in my sleep. Eagles usually represent good stuff in the Bible. So I pray in Jesus' name that victory is here!