It's No Good Pinching Yourself.....It's Real!

                We have all had these moments to one degree or another. For example.....you are somehow on the side of a cathedral spire....and the ledge is at a slight slope. The sleet is falling fast...the temperature is dropping....and you have to move quickly along the ledge to get inside....only that ledge is now all ice....going both ways. Panic sets in! What are you possibly going to do to get out of this? And then in an instant....you wake up....and everything if fine again....for it was just a dream.
                So you fluff your pillow and try to go back to sleep. Then you are walking along a popular beach boardwalk. Families are having fun....the evening weather is perfect....when you notice that there is a gathering of people on the beach side....and another gathering of people on the stores side. You along with many others are passing between them. The two groups are yelling at each other....and then they start throwing things....and then you see a gun brandished....and you hear shots all around you. Whatever happens....all these innocent bystanders need to get out of the way and fast....and then you wake up!
                 Two in one night! Well....it's not the first time. I just picked two possible wild nightmares. Mine are usually something like last night....where I was walking the entire course of a boardwalk....enjoying the laughter and occasionally looking out at the surf....when I reach up to my face and my glasses are not there! Oh no....did they fall off ? Did I set them down and forget to pick them up. I look back at about a mile of boardwalk. How do I possibly go about backtracking....and then I wake up.  I'm so used to this that I don't even have to tell myself that it was only a dream. I just smile and go back to sleep!
                 I've had other interesting things happen. I would wake up in a sweat thinking about what in my dream Trump had said or done. This cannot be true. How could he possibly say anything like this....or do anything like this....and fool so many Christians? Then I know that it was a nightmare....and I relax....before I realize that yes it was a nightmare....but I had the nightmare because he actually said and did those things....and fooled so many Christians! At times like that I just pray for God to have mercy upon His people and open our eyes. Let the world be taken in....but not His people. And that is where I am this morning.