Hope
The Great War Between Flesh and Spirit
Recently the topic of dreams came up in our home. More specifically, how we save and log our dreams. I happen to use the notes app on my phone so that when I search I can quickly find them—though to be fair I do also write them in rogue notebooks scattered (just to keep things interesting). I'm not talking about run-of-the-mill "I had too much cake last night" dreams. I'm talking about significant, meaningful, applicable God dreams that you just know are from Him. Inspired by the conversation, I pulled up the search on my phone and found one from 2016 that was particularly puzzling.
As I look around me and listen to the undercurrents of conversation, I sense a lot of despair and an air of fatalism that is concerning. Instead of hope, I see exhaustion. People are burnt out, on-edge, and like string so tightly strung they seem as though they might snap. Is this truly how we start a new quarter of a century?
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It's officially winter (it comes late here in the south). A quick look out my bedroom window shows me our tall, deciduous trees waving precariously back and forth in the wind—naked and barren. I miss their regal robes of green....