I had this weirdest-yet-amazing-and-made-me-cry-when-I-woke-up-dream a while ago, and it reminds me of God’s unending love for me. He really has a perfect timing on when to speak, plus I love how He works because one of my favorite things on earth is dreaming.
It was summer. We were at the beach. And the whole church was there, more like a church retreat. Weird because we’ll have it tomorrow. I wonder if it would really happen in real life. First challenge for the day was the hide and seek/chase game. Do you know that I am always chased in my dreams? Another thing that makes me cringe. As always, I was with my friends Aliza, Alek, and Ara. I don’t know why Tin wasn’t there. The objective of the game was to exercise strength, agility, and diskarte to escape from the people who’ll catch you. They were 10 people who’ll chase I guess, and the participants, the ones who’ll run for there lives were approximately 25.
Up we go the stairs, to the villas, to the restaurants, to the open area. I even remembered I climbed the coconut tree and I was so strong that I rescued a man on top of it. Strange. I got supernatural powers! Hah. That was the reason why I lost track of my friends. I went to a point that I was already alone, running for my life. I saw a group of chasers coming and I have no choice, I have to dive into the pool of wet grass and dirty water to save my life. Because the punishment was so brutal that I’d choose to dive into those gross stuff. So I tried not to move and breath obviously like a frog. Yet they caught me, unfortunately. But you know what’s strange? I have this diskarte at the back of my mind that I will still remain stationary, and I will act like I was in pain or dead if it’ll work, or hopefully they won’t recognize me as me - which was my main goal. Haha.
They were dragging me like a dead woman. And at the back of my head, I was saying to myself, I’m gonna be dead. I can hear them laughing, because they know I was just making a scene. But sticked to my plan and amazingly, a woman very familiar to me approached me and she said to the chasers, I was her friend, that they have caught the wrong person, that I am not Gertrude. I saw her winking at me secretly, and that simple gesture gave me hope.
She hid me in her room, but unfortunately before I take a deep sigh as a sigh of relief, I have experienced an eye-to-eye encounter with a chaser. And right then and there, he announced to the whole church community if anybody had seen me. I can see the whole crowd from the window, buzzing with confusion. It was a hard decision to make, but I chose to speak up and tell everybody the truth.
As I walk my way to the stage, I was praying intensely, asking for His help. Hoping that everybody won’t get mad at me for making a scene. Truly, even in our dreams, He answers prayers. I was still on my introduction when the host shifted the awkward mood to a happy mood when he asked somebody to offer a special number and pray.
In that dream, I believe that the core lesson He wanted me to learn/realize is when I overheard Ate Rachelle’s conversation with someone. She said, “If you take the ministry seriously, He will take you seriously.” As a matter of fact, even in our failures, He always remain faithful and serious to us. Behind our faults, He has seen the need. He knows our frailties, He knows our nature. He knows when we’re empty, and He always find ways to fill us what we need. He knows how forgetful I am, but he never failed to remind me.
This week, everything stops in the Philippines as we celebrated the Holy Week. Let us make Holy Week holy as we remember and ponder upon His sacrifice for His great love for us.
