Walking in the way the truth and the life…

Simple insight from a dream i had last night: we need truth, a way, and the life to live well, and in order to make it through coming storms. My dream had huge storms on the horizon, and many were simply not prepared. There was a moment when it was too late. I won’t go into the dream now, but wanted to share from what it was teaching. Knowledge, a map, and empowerment are all needed. And people are seeking all three. Some in better places than others. (Some of the life jackets in my dream for instance, simply didn’t work! It’s good to pick the right knowledge and safety equipment before jumping into the water!)

From that dream last night I’m thinking we each need both a spirituality and a theology of our own spirituality to start! To keep us mored in Love’s Ways and our truer selves. We both need to have spiritual practices and to understand our thinking around our spirituality, what it is founded in. This feels basic to survival. I won’t go into my own dream, but many were drowned int he coming storms for not having both a spirituality and a sort of theology of their spirituality. If we are unmarried or un-mored spiritually, it effects the whole. Knowledge alone doesn’t save, just like those guys in that town who knew about Jesus, but hadn’t gotten da Spirit yet. They had info without power to enter it. We need the whole package these days. Sacred information, a sacred pathway, and sacred Power to walk it out and live it!

I guess that we need is the whole package to make it—the truth, the way, and the life, as the Man taught. The information, the actual path prepared beforehand (Eph 2:10; at least a partial view of where we are heading long term), and the Life energy and empowerment to Live it out. Those are basic. And my dream was talking about them symbolically last night. I found it helpful. I realize some people and even cultures tend to emphasize one of these aspects: the truth parts (greeks) the way parts (more intuitive cultures) and the life parts (sort of power encounter cultures, like much of Africa). But it seems we need all three to be whole now and mored in Love’s Ways and our truer selves.

In my dream, some where blown away or drowned because they had no knowledge or truth (or just even simple reasons for their own spirituality; they hadn’t considered to articulate what and why they were grounded in ultimately. An unconsidered spirituality, can be deadly, as we are all spiritual as humans, and so mored in something!), others because they had no sense of their life’s whole story and where they were in it (“the path prepared beforehand to be your unique way!”, your part in the grand narrative; still others drowned, because they simply didn’t have the power to empower them to live well. I would guess that in helping others or ourselves, it’s good to look at which area is weakest and develop there!. Cool dream anyways, sort of a discipleship dream for lack of a better term. Or just how to be more whole, and help others do the same. Felt like sharing from it anyways. I love how dreams teach us to live.