Walking the Passage: Turned Myself In

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Turned Myself In

So interesting the things that dreams stir up.......

So I awoke from a dream where I was turning myself into the authorities and being taken away to jail....

Uhm.... Mims that doesn't sound good ... Oh on the contrary ....

Taking the dream apart .... To be arrested... Well I like two definitions of that word.... First one states ... Seize, capture... To be taken into custody by authority or law.....

Secondly...... To arrest attention, to catch suddenly and engagingly ....

I willingly place myself into the state if being arrested.... I want all that I am to be taken captive by the Lord's authority.... I want Him to possess my attention and my affections ....

The state of being arrested..... Equals confined rights.... Confined actions.... Limited choice.... I choose that..... I choose Him and His ways.....

Authority.... I value godly authority in my life and I value God's authority in my life....

He created me.... Does the pot say to the potter mold me and shape me this way or that ... No! It sits on the wheel and allows the pressure of the potter's fingers to create the piece of work that is in the heart and mind of the maker ....

So I've turned my life in ..... This life is not my own to keep... I place myself under the authority of He who is my Lord and King....... Father..... Creator .... I wouldn't have life outside of Him.... I don't want life outside of Him...

I submit to His rule and reign... To the confinement of living in His house......

There are other things the dream says but the primary lesson for the heart is

... We are going to serve something in this life... Whether it be our own interests or the interests of the world or the interests of man or the interests of God .....

He may arrest me and my affections any time... I choose Him... I want my affections subject to His authority.... His rule and reign in my life is that which I seek and hunger after.....

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One of my Favorite Narnian Quotes...

“One word, Ma’am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping because of the pain. “One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things – trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world that makes you real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we’re leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for the Overland.

A Brilliant Quote from Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,

but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking

so that others won't feel unsure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us; it is in every one.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.