In Our Dreams

Last night I was too tired to blog after babysitting late for the grandgirls, but I just have to report what happened this morning when I got up and walked into the kitchen. Dean was sitting there at the kitchen table reading his library book, but here was the kicker: he was fully dressed in his jeans, shirt, street shoes, and cap!

This may not sound newsworthy, but it is the first time I have seen him dressed completely without assistance for about a year now. When I asked how this amazing feat happened, he said that I had told him to wake up about an hour before and get dressed for his day program. (Obviously, one of his dreams that are too real, at least in his mind. He's had them now and then over the years since his brain injury.)

When I asked how he was able to get dressed all by himself, he just said it was HARD! And he added he was mad at me the whole time he was accomplishing it.

Not unlike the way I feel about God sometimes for making me do things I don't think I can do by myself. When pressed, I suppose all of us can do things we never thought we could do on our own. God is never far away though. Just like I was right there sleeping in the same house, all the while Dean was struggling to get dressed.

And now he's asking me to fix his breakfast. I wish I could tell him in a dream to do it himself. Hmmm...

Slipping on Slippers

In the morning, I help my husband with his shoes and socks. Ever since he hurt his foot last summer, he needs this assistance, and I'm afraid I have the job for life. He just seems helpless when I try to get him to do it on his own. The shoes are slippers with Velcro. You'd think he could master them. But it's just easier to accommodate him and do it myself.

Later in the day, after he'd taken his slippers off, our daughter and granddaughters came over for awhile. In order to go outside and see them, I noticed that the slippers miraculously appeared on his feet, without my helping them get there. Without even thinking, he put them on all by himself.

Our obedience to God is somewhat like this. We obey each day, with God as our constant Helper. But someday, that obedience will become second nature to us, hopefully soon after baptism, and we will start obeying without even thinking about it. Our will will become so blended with God's will, that whatever we do, it will just be carrying out the will of our Father. Fortunately, we have our whole lifetime to work on this. But the possibility is there for everyone. God makes it possible. We do it for Him and by Him.