DREAMS AND QUESTIONS

     DREAMS. WHAT ARE YOU? ARE YOU MY LIVING, BREATHING UNCONSCIOUS? ARE YOU MY WORST FEARS? MY DEEPEST DARKEST SECRETS? THE WISHES OF MY HEART? A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE? ARE YOU A SECRET MESSAGE AWAITING TO BE DECODED AND UNDERSTOOD FOR MY SELF-BETTERMENT? SOMETIMES YOU ARE ALL THESE THINGS AND MORE, SOMETIMES ONE MORE OFTEN THAN THE OTHER. I CAN'T QUITE LAY MY FINGER ON WHAT YOU ARE OR WHY YOU ARE--HOW FRUSTRATING--I WISH TO UNDERSTAND. PERHAPS IT'S BUT VANITY TO UNDERSTAND. REGARDLESS, HUMAN AS I AM, I WISH THAT DREAMS OF MY CHOOSING CAME TRUE. ON THE OTHER HAND, HOWEVER, MORE IMPORTANTLY, I DO HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF PRAYER, ITS POWER. I CAN PRAY TO MY GOD, MY MAKER, MY PROVIDER, AND HUMBLY ASK THAT THESE DREAMS BE GRANTED SHOULD THEY NOT BE AGAINST HIS WILL AND PLANS FOR ME. I CAN WORK DILIGENTLY TO SHOW HOW EARNESTLY I DESIRE SUCH GRACE, TO BE WORTHY FOR SUCH GRACE OR AT LEAST AS CLOSE TO IT AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE. IN THE MEAN TIME, AS I PRAY AND WORK, I HOPE TO DREAM WELL, WITH MY DREAMS AS INSPIRATION, FUEL, TO MOVE FORWARD...