ONYX DREAMS

ONYX DREAMS

What prevails in your night? Is it a time of trips to beautiful places and filled with great feelings or only dark thoughts?

I don't personally think all dark dreams are bad. They can be a source of teaching. If we allow God's spirit to instruct.

And then even in the night there can be home. How easy the darkness can consume. It can produce such a heaviness.

If enough pressure comes over the soul and mood it can really be crushing. Which is so deflating of one's energy.

But the most critical element is to not let a given bout of blackness to bring permanent scars. Mainly by giving in to any dark urges.

This happens when the energy comes as a test of one's faith. God does let those because they are part of what helps us learn.

It isn't always a joy and we may not welcome them, but they are essential at times. So we have to be able to listen. And for that it can truly be such a challenge.

Not that we will be grateful for this trial. But we may be grateful when it passes. At least grateful when the joy returns.

The other day for me was full of onyx moments. I was just feeling so oppressed. And nothing I did all day seemed to in any way improve things.

All that happen was that the heaviness lasted till the next morning. I didn't do anything special to inspire or deserve it.

But I was aware it was just another aspect to my life that I was going to have to travel. And to do it I kept traveling.

I didn't run just plotted along. But I do know how much worse life would have been if I hadn't tried.

I only know that from experience. Just been there on other occasions. Which is what gives strength.

It doesn't always come with happiness. It isn't what we crave. But it is what we discover on the path between two sunrises.

And for the understanding gain I thank the Lord. For it has been a wealth, not for my bank account, but in so many other ways.

Sometimes gold doesn't come in bars.