USS Clueless: Earth to Timi

When the cat had cleared my way and I was out of the bathroom, one of the dogs says to me, "This is a beautiful home you have here." I said aloud, "WHAT THE!!!" I thought that I was losing my mind. Just when I began to think that I needed to sit down, the other dog begins to talk to me. It was speaking of how lovely my home is. The two dogs began commenting on the interior structure of the house. They began asking me questions about the house. I answered openly. After a while, the dogs almost appeared normal and I began talking to them as if they were real humans.

The little dog says to me, "Do you realize that you're talking to two dogs right now? Is this what your life has come to?" I realized that the dog had a point. I told him that knew I was talking to a dog. I told both dogs that they had to leave my house because they were beginning to freak me out. I advised them to take their cat friend as well. The bigger dog says, "It didn't come with us. That's not a cat. It's a rat." I really began tripping out.

The little dog said, "You have a beautiful house. The integrity of this home is unmatched. You have to keep it clean. Allowing the rat to stay & roam will compromise the structure of this foundation." So the dogs say they will help me to purge my home of this rat. This wasn't just any rat either. It looked like that hideous creature that tormented the characters on "Martin". The rat was frightening. It even scared the dogs. Whenever the rat ran towards us, we ran in the opposite direction screamings.

I should've been running towards the rat in hopes of killing it. The dream ended as I cornered that in my living room. I had a knife in my hand, but I don't know if I killed it because I woke up. I thought I was tripping. I got up, drank some water & then went back to bed. I had a second dream. It was short, but very meaningful.

In this dream, I was cleaning my house. I was cleaning my kitchen floor. I was mopping. There were these black marks on the floor. As I began to mop, all the marks were disappearing, but this one mark would not go away. I tried using several different cleansers to get rid of it, but the mark stayed to no avail. So, I called my grandmother to ask her how could I remove the stain.

She said, "Baby, that mop isnt going to do it. That stain requires extra work. You are going to have to ditch the easy solutions and get down on your knees to scrub it out. Sometimes you have to get dirty to see results."

I awakened after that. I instantly knew what the dreams meant. The dreams were so vivid with metaphorical meaning & imagery. It was deep. The second dream was a summary of the first. It was God's way of telling me that I need to do some serious "spiritual" cleansing in my life. The dogs were messengers of God sent to tell me to get my house in order. I need to remove the black spots and rats because these things cant dwell in the beautiful structure that represented my house. The house was an explicit metaphor for my body (a temple).

When I analyzed it all, I said, "Thank you Jesus for making it so plain to me." I know what it is that needs to be purged out of my life. It was take a whole 'nutha post to document that issue, but I began to think about 2 Corinthians 12:7-9 in which The Apostle Paul states that there is a thorn in his flesh.

To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.� Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Whew...that's ALOT to take in. I find it interesting that God didn't grant Paul's request. Instead, He gave Paul grace to bear it. So whenever Satan tried to tempt Paul, he (he meaning Paul) would be able to resist it.

Maybe that's what God is doing in my life. Perhaps he's hasn't removed my issue because He's already provided an outlet for me to bear it. Both dreams ended without the problem being solved entirely, but I knew what I needed to do to get rid of it or suppress it. Perhaps I should be more honest & open about weaknesses considering that it may be a help to others.

God is amazing. He used "Balaam's Ass" to give me some much need truth in my dream. That's deep.