4 Dreams

We are in the midst of a crisis...one our generation hasn't seen in our lifetime, but in the midst of it all I want to make sure that my faith stands strong!!  God hasn't given me a spirit of fear, but anxiety is knocking on my door. I'm not a fan a Facebook, so for a couple of weeks while I was fasting and praying I shut my page down. I got back on yesterday and it was pandemonium. Covid-19 was in almost every post. The one that struck me was the one saying that for asthma sufferers the corona could be fatal....

In the past I have been diagnosed with asthma, even though I have rejected that diagnosis. Then I met a doctor who told me that I've never had asthma, but only allergies. I was relieved. However, in December when I went to the doctor she told me that I had asthma. What is it?

A few years ago I got sick, I think it was 2015. It was a cold, but it was awful. It was in my chest and I had difficulty breathing and a doctor prescribed me an inhaler. The cold didn't go away. It lingered for about 6 months. Nothing worked to get rid of it. Finally I took colloidal silver and it went away. Since then I have had allergy symptoms throughout the years: when the weather changes, or if I'm around cats or dogs...things would flair up. So I had a doctor prescribe me singulair. I don't take it everyday but during times when I'm wheezing at night I take it and it goes away. I've got thyroid problems also, so that contributes to allergies.  So this compounds my issue. 

Well, reading that post stuck with me and even though I haven't allowed it to cause me to fear, I am concerned. My job has grounded us so we aren't allowed to conduct inspections. We are allowed to continue to do other work related to the inspections, but no inspections with people involved. So that's a good thing, but my sister works at Sam's Club and there are tons of people coming in and out of that store. So far we haven't had any cases of the corona in our county (that doesn't mean no one has the disease, we don't have anyone who has tested positive yet.) So there is this sense that we will be ok, but when we look at the news, there is this question...will we be ok? One prediction is that 40-60% of Americans will contract this virus.  Our state has shut down schools, bars and restaurants can only serve drive through or take home meals, a few churches have closed their doors and encourage online participation....this is like nothing we've seen in our lifetime. So I've been praying for guidance.  I help to run a food pantry and yes people need help and people need food, so I've been trying to figure the right course of action.

In the Bible, during Joseph's time there was 7 years of famine and Joseph was wise and stored up food for the famine. Right now we are unable to make large purchases of food because store shelves are bare so I asked the CEO if we could shut down in April to assess and strategize so that we could keep food on the shelves. She agreed, but of course I'm not solid in my decision. I"m trying to make sure that we do the right thing.

Last night I had 4 dreams:

In the first dream there were these huge birds--dinosaur type birds (I don't know much about dinosaurs). We were in a church and this huge bird was swooping down to try to get the children. The bird was almost as big as a human and I along with another volunteer started throwing rocks and helping to hide the children underneath the pews. I woke up when the bird crashed in front of us.

The second dream I had was similar, but instead of the huge dinosaur bird it was hawks, huge hawks. The kind that are big enough to carry a small child away. And the hawks were trying to attack the children and we were trying to keep the children from crowding in one space under the pew. We were trying to get them to spread out so that the pew could cover them. The hawk swooped down and I woke up.

The third dream I was working doing my job and I was to meet up with my partner so that we could conduct inspections and we needed to hire a kid and she mentioned this kid that we've worked with before. I got the kid and we did the inspection only to find out that this wasn't a kid--he had grown up and was almost 30 I thought and I had to tell my partner that this kid was almost 30. Actually he was more like 25, but not a kid anymore so he couldn't work.

The last dream I had...I was sleeping in my room in a twin size bed. There was a bedside table and a lamp and then another twin bed and my sister was sleeping in that twin bed. Really early in the morning I heard the garage door open, but it couldn't have been my garage door...who would be opening that this early in the morning. So I ignored it and went back to sleep. About an hour later I got up as the sun was rising and opened the curtain to see my garage door open and two men were stealing my stuff. One had sold my car and they were stealing my tools and equipment and selling it in my neighbors garage sale. I was trying to wrestle my stuff from the men and trying to call the police and I woke up. 

So all of this is interesting to me. We are in unchartered territory so this will be an interesting ride.