Willingness to listen to God

Sometimes when you have things all planned out, you know exactly what is going to happen when, you have everything READY -- you realize that things need to go a different way.

This weekend the high school youth, 2 AAA Adults and myself went hungry.  We participated in the 30 Hour Famine sponsored by World Vision.  We ignored technology and food for 30 hours to bring awareness of those that do not have food.  This is my third year participating in this event.  Each year brings new discoveries about myself and the world as I know it.

So, I had everything planned completely.  Everything was ready.  We were going to wake up Saturday morning and do a simple devotional on temptation and Jesus' temptation in the desert.  Then I went to sleep Friday night. I dreamed all night about Baptism and renewal.  I dreamed about scriptures having to do with Baptism and renewal.  I dreamed about new ways to use these stones that I was going to give to the youth for the temptation lesson.  I woke up and was very motivated by this.  The funny thing was that I wanted to do what I planned.  I had worked on talking about hunger and talking about the temptations we have in our lives.

So I awoke at 5 am and spent some time praying.  I prayed for each of the youth there and the ones unable to be there.  It was then that I again was coming back to Baptism and renewal and walking daily in our Baptism. It was weird.  I didn't want to talk about Baptism but apparently God did.  At this point that was all I could come up with.  It had to be God.

So, I thumbed through scriptures still unsure of how I was going to relate this to the stones.  I was led to 1 Peter the second chapter that talks about being living stones.  We should not be stones to stumble over but we are building ourselves a spiritual house.

It is strange how all this works out.  I told my youth that morning that I had this whole lesson planned out but dreamed about a whole different lesson that was much more what needed to be developed.

God speaks to us everyday.  Normally I don't dream about God speaking to me.  I have to admit that was a very different experience.  It was truly a blessing though.  I knew that God was leading me to what I needed to say.

AMEN