"I BELIEVE I CAN FLY"
-- By Sondra McCauley

I've said it before. The Lord God speaks to us in a multitude of ways-through His Word, the inner voice of His Spirit, nature, song, impressions, others, circumstances, etc. Whether you've experienced it or not, He also speaks to us through dreams. As it states in Job 33: 15-16, " In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed: Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction." When I experience hearing from God in a dream, I find it fascinating and often come away feeling like Joseph in the Old Testament--trying to interpret the meaning of the dream and how it applies to my life. Sometimes it's easy; sometimes it's not.

Over recent years, I've experienced an infrequent series of dreams about flying. Not flying in an aircraft or with wings-really flying with just me, arms, and the wind to uphold me. I know the message is one from God, given the peace surrounding it and the scriptural support behind it. Its meaning is quite clear. In the first of the series of dreams, I recall, I was just flying through the air amid a host of other white objects flying about me. Here and there, there were some black ones, too. The second and third dreams involved my teaching specific friends how to fly. I recall that one friend was at the bottom of a long dark canyon. I flew out and, looking down from the top, kept instructing her to just "pick your feet up and fly!" The most recent of the dreams involved a long, long flight. It was slow going but I kept on at a deliberate pace, with a moderate degree of force behind each arm movement. It was a circuitous route, winding across open fields, along city streets, and among and sometimes through buildings, past a variety of faces, looking for the unlocked door, or window to get through to the other side. And so I moved on. I got to a point where I knew that the final destination was just minutes away. Weary, I stopped to rest for a bit…and then I woke up.

I know that this dream has a lot of meaning for some things that I've been going through for a long time in my life: that though the way has been long and slow, I am not to give up, but keep going, abbreviate the rest break, and press forward to the end in sight. Though I might want to give up, I must believe like the words of the song and like He showed me in the dream that "I can fly"-on and on and on and on…. In Christ and in your circumstances, you can, too.