Advent 2020 | Day 15

SCRIPTURE:

“13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”

Revelation 22:13

BEGINNING


Do you know what dreams are? When I was in college I took a class on the psychology of dreams. I learned that dreams are a collection of memories, past events, or recent events that are logged in your brain that forms into a dream while you are sleeping. For example…

The other day I was reading Cruz a story about hydrophobia. After the story he told me that he had a dream that our car fell into a swamp. I told him that is a common dream many people have. Raise your hand if you have ever had a dream about driving your car off the highway and falling into a body a water? Do you know why we have that dream and why Cruz had that dream? For Cruz it was because we just recently spend a lot of time driving on the highways, near bodies of water. The reason we all share that dream is because a common memory log in all of our brains is driving over bodies of water and looking down and asking “what if?” It’s common.

This psychology of dreams is one of the ways that I interpret the book of Revelation. John of Patmos was in some deserted island having visions. Visions that were a collection of his memory log, his culture, and his faith. In the midst of that dream he saw God tell him “I am the beginning.” Maybe God was encouraging him in the midst of his exile and saddest part of his life that his life was not over. That God was about to bring a new beginning in his life. This new beginning is the same vision the shepherd, Mary, Joseph, Herod, and the three wise men shared. But to each of them it meant something different.

What does a new beginning look like for you this Christmas season? Who are you?

  • Are you a person who is worried about our political situation and your vocations future like the shepherds? What does a vision of a new beginning look like for you?

  • Are you a young woman whose life has been challenged or blessed with a new beginning?

  • Are you a man who doesn’t know what to believe but is here for the ride of this new beginning?

  • Are you a leader whose power is being threatened and you are in need of some humbling? But your anger/pride/ego won’t let you see it?

  • Or are you a person in search of truth who needs to spend some time worshipping God and knowing there is a new beginning?

    Tell me.