Dream up the Answer

“To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.”

                                    Anatole France

                                    French Novelist

You spend your days shanghaied by problems. The dog vomited on your newly shampooed carpet. The guy across the street rolled in early this morning – right into your driveway with his car nosing into your living room window. The temperature dropped below freezing and your furnace gave its last gasp. Your teenager got suspended from school for smoking on school grounds. Your spouse got fired and you hate your job. And your finances? “Debt” is now number one on your four-letter word list.

At night when you crawl into bed and (finally) fall asleep, you just want a blessed out from your life. Instead your problems appear in weird scenarios and at 3 a.m. you wake up screaming.

Hold that dream. Don’t lose it. Write it down before it disappears from your mind.

Dreams are a bridge to your soul and can often help you sort out your life. One fall, my life plate wobbled under a mound of problems – including the furnace and finances mentioned above. I spent my days spinning around trying to organize house and yard repairs while trying to run my business to pay for them. I cursed and yelled at everyone. I believed that these problems would never get solved. One night I dreamt that I saw Jesus Christ in living colour – complete with beard, long hair, and billowing red and white robe. He stood at the end of my driveway and said, “Everything will be all right.”

Before you label me “religious nut,” let me state that I am not a religious person. My gut reaction to this dream was I needed a big reassuring message that all my problems had answers. So the Universe, God or whatever you believe in, sent out “the big guns” to tell me that help was coming. Within a week I had a new furnace installed, the funds to pay for it, and the remaining repair problems got fixed one by one. My plate rested empty – until, of course, the next set of problems got dished out.

So, if your day problems are wearing you down, just before you fall asleep, state the problems and ask for solutions. Then go to sleep and dream up an answer. You may not get the heavy artillery showing up, but the weird scenarios of your dream may just point you in a direction you never day-dreamed of to solve your problems.