Another Christmas tree on the highway in real life with the bottom sheared off

Today I saw another Christmas tree on the right side of the highway in real life with the bottom sheared off. I don't think it's a common thing to see Christmas trees on the street or the highway so I believe God is trying to tell me something is going to happen this Christmas, perhaps on Christmas Day.

May the blood of Jesus cover it all and I pray for God's grace will continue nursing favor

I dreamt it was 20 minutes until 9 a.m., the third hour of the day, says the Bible

Last night I had a dreamt where I was warned twice by different people that I had "20 minutes" to get ready for a big meeting. 

I was in a hotel room and at first I had no idea what time the meeting was set to begin, until Farrar Abraham and her friend warned me I had 20 minutes.

Later, after a few more events elapsed in the dream, a black guy warned me (he was going around nicely to all the hotel guests because he worked there) that I had 20 minutes before the meeting started.

I was in the tub but seemed clothed as I glanced up at the clock and saw that 20 minutes later would be 9 a.m., and that reminded me of the book "9 o'clock in the Morning," which speaks of the third hour of the day when significant biblical events occurred like Jesus being crucified and the Holy Spirit coming at Pentecost.

Since the 20 minutes was stated twice in my dream, even the second time when naturally it should have been less time, but I was glad I had time to get ready, I believe that is an important clue so I looked up the number 20 to figure out what it means in the Bible and most interpretations from people say it means waiting expectantly.

So perhaps it's a warning to get ready for Jesus and the Holy Spirit to come.

Because 1,000 years is like a day to the Lord, I even did a rough calculation that 20 minutes equals around 9 years. I hope He comes back soon...then no more worries about anything for those who've believed Him.

JOHN 14:6

Dreams about my mother who died and American Girl doll taken out of the drain

I had a dream about my mother, who died in 1999, and she looked beautiful in the dream.

She was trying on outfits and getting my opinion and my sisters opinion on what she was wearing.

It was a cute beige top and short shorts that matched and she was trying to figure out what type of shoes to wear.

At first she had on high heels and I told her that we wearing high heels with short shorts was just too much. I thought to myself they looked like hooker heels.

So she changed flats that they were beige Flats that had a wraparound thing around the ankles and my sister said those looked even sluttier but I liked them.

I also dreamt that my husband and I were sneaking out the drains in our house because the water was running too slowly.

I was at the bathroom sink brushing my teeth in the water was getting backed up, and my husband was standing right here looking but it eventually drained down.

Next, my husband and I were in the second story of my childhood home but we were draining as if it were our home and I figured out how to use the snake and blow out the end so I could take it down the drain and clean out whatever was causing the stop up.

Eventually we ended up outside and all of the stuff came out of the drain, including an American girl doll and instead of throwing her away I saved her on a blanket so that I could clean her off.

It was pretty disgusting because the stuff that have been snaked out with kind of pet excrement all over it and there was like liquidy poop in this SUV car so I don't know how that ended up in the dream but I didn't want to throw away the American girl doll and her little dog because I knew it was expensive.

So I laid her on a blanket and I tried to get a little girl next to her not to touch her until I cleaned her off.

Other than that there were other adults and crap that had come up out of the sink and I was wondering how on earth things that were so big had made it down the drain.

Dream about carrying a tripod in Chicago, and being set up with a possible perv

Last night I dreamt I had two black tripods in my left hand as I carried them and tried to use them to cover my purse as I walked either downtown Chicago or on the south side of the city, trying to go north.

It looked different than I was used to it looking, wherever I thought I was looked different. I kept trying to avoid all the groups of brothers hanging out in various places and in the stores and stuff, hoping they wouldn't notice me. At least a couple did but I think I kept moving.

Then another dream had me hanging out in some tall black guys apartment with some other women. It felt like an episode of the bachelor or something because I knew the few women were there as potential dates for the man. He seemed nice enough and I knew there was chemistry, but I took a devil may care attitude about him. He was a single father with a son the was so funny as the little boy described to us his school play routine he'd performed.

What turned me off about the man is that his son said his dad didn't go to the performance, but chose to stay home at the apartment right up the street and watch a movie called "beguine," which reminded me of that title, Begin the Beguine.

In the end, the brother had someone on his lap, but in the dark it didn't look like a woman but someone younger, which I'd hoped it wasn't.

That's all I remember for now. I don't know who he was. Isn't it weird how you can dream of complete strangers you don't even know if they actually exist? I hope he doesn't.

I dreamt I saw a revelation in the Bible whereby one line showed a man had dreamt something, and in the next line he did that thing

I dreamt I saw a revelation in the Bible whereby one line showed a man had dreamt something, and in the next line he did that thing.

 There was a separation between the text, for example, it was written in black whereby at the end of one paragraph (which may have been one whole paragraph unto itself) a man had some kind of dream. Then in the new paragraph, my dream showed the man performing the action.

As I sit here I try to remember if that was something I actually studied during my Bible study time yesterday morning, or if it was a dream. I think it was a dream from last night because in the dream, I underlined the revelation, the fact that I'd picked up on the teaching lesson that one line showed a man dreaming something and the next line showed a man performing that action.

 I took it to mean that we should act on the God-given direction in our dreams, and my waking mind wants to add the caveat that we should prayerfully seek God to ensure the thought and direction is from Him.

But I like that. I hope I can actually find that in the Bible.

I mean, I know about Joseph's dream about the sheaths bowing down to him and the sun and moon as well. And there were also the pivotal dreams whereby the other Joseph was told by an angel to not put Mary away because she was pregnant with the Lord by God.

And I'm sure there are numerous other incidents of people being warned in dreams of things that could happen in real life, like when Paul was warned -- and people warned him -- not to go certain ways in order to spare his life. Sometimes he heeded them, other times he did not.

I'd like to find that passage about a man receiving direction in his dream in one paragraph, and the very next line he obeyed the dream's direction.

That's why I'm back to chronicling some of my dreams. I believe God gives us great messages and directions in some of them. Test the spirits, as they say, to see if they are from God.

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 1 John 4:1

...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!