Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Traveling Dreams

I have the great privilege and fun of planning and coordinating LifeWay's women's events . Most of you can figure out that it amounts to lots of details, lots of fun people and lots of travel! For me, a regular part of the traveling portion of my work is what I call "traveling dreams". Some of you know exactly what I'm talking about because you share my odd thought process prior to taking a trip. My thought process (and yours, I suspect) flow through a list of questions…do I have all my personal items? Am I prepared for my meetings? Do I know where I am supposed to be and what time? Will my contact person be there to pick me up?

So anyway, back to my dreams. Inevitably, the night before the day I travel I have weird dreams related to all of the issues mentioned above. I dream that I have forgotten my undergarments. Or, that I am not in the place I need to be and am trying to get there. Sometimes, I am in front of the group I am supposed to be speaking to and I can't find my notes. You get the idea…anxious dreams about all the things that could go wrong. I had all of these scenes run through my "night media" last Wednesday before I headed to Charlotte.

The thing that makes all this so strange is that I love my event planning work and I love traveling. I don't dread it. It doesn't make me nervous. None of that. I have concluded that the dreams can only be attributed to the fact that I may be a bit of a control freak (smile).

I've been wondering lately if there's any cross over to my spiritual life. I love my relationship with God. I don't dread spending time with Him, pursuing the life He's called me to. It doesn't make me nervous to trust Him because He is worthy of my trust.

But some days, spiritual traveling dreams take over. Am I doing all that I can to not miss any assignments that are mine? Is there something that other people see in me that I cannot see in myself? Am I going miss a moment that God has planned especially for me?

So many questions….searching for answers….how about you!

Betsy

Posted by Michelle Hicks on Apr 30, 2008 at 01:36 PM