{"id":5552,"date":"2023-10-17T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2022-12-07T16:28:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T16:28:24","slug":"thinking-about-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/17\/thinking-about-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking About Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On this day many years ago I woke up after having what I thought at the time was an odd dream. I dreamt about my oldest sister. I had no reason to be dreaming about her. I’d seen her about a month earlier after her granddaughter spent a few days with me. My sister had struggled with obesity all her life. In my dream, she was thin, walking without any difficulty, and extremely happy and radiant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I woke up I thought the dream was so odd that I immediately told my husband about it. Late that evening I got a call from my father. My sister had passed away suddenly without warning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I knew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God was showing me my sister in Heaven. No physical impairment. Beautiful. So happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by\u00a0Jackson David<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I believe God speaks to us in dreams sometimes. Not every time. I’ve since had others in my family pass away and I didn’t receive a comforting dream like this. Maybe one is enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dreams are in the Bible, and it’s clear God uses them to communicate sometimes. Who could forget Joseph’s dreams<\/a> and his ability to interpret dreams? The ancient Celts believed dreams were significant as well. I’ve blogged about St. Patrick’s dream<\/a> and St. Enda’s dream<\/a>, one of my most popular posts on this blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I cherish this dream about my sister. It brought me great comfort. I’d love to hear about your significant dreams. Care to share them here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On this day many years ago I woke up after having what I thought at the time was an odd dream. I dreamt about my oldest sister. I had no reason to be dreaming about her. I’d seen her about a month earlier after her granddaughter spent a few days with me. My sister had…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[516,515],"tags":[518,517],"class_list":["post-5552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-dreams","tag-death","tag-dreams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5554,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions\/5554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}