It was an Applebees kind of night with friends and fruity drinks. I being 20 at the time could not drink, thus I was the designated driver. Joy and laughter spilled over in my friend's Suburban as we drove under the star blanketed sky, down the backroads of Arkansas.
"A few nights ago I had a crazy prophetic dream. It was weird but so clear." I told my girlfriends. "My students mom along with my director Barb had a very important message for me. 'One', Michaels mom said, was that major change was about to occur in my life. "Two...." Before she said the third thing a dog walked past unaware that it needed to give birth to its pup inside. Therefore it was placed in a contraption where you blew into the mouth and the pup was able to come out. 'Three,' she said drawing my attention back, 'You have a [spiritual] gift that you don't even know you have.' Immediately I wanted to speak in tongues but then I woke up."
"Oh my word. I totally forgot to tell you!" Traci said from the back seat. "The other night I had such an odd dream about you. I was trying to parallel park my car on this hill and there was this guy cleaning his car. After I parked and got out the car, the car rolled uphill instead of downhill, hitting the guy's car. I was so embarrassed. But after that, the Lord told me very specifically to give you this message,'you're not parking here.' That ettled peacefully in my heart. Immediately I just knew it, "I'm moving." I whispered. Initially I was really bummed. The fact was that I was ready to settle down in Arkansas. Make it home. I did not doubt that message was from the Lord. I did not question it. I just knew it was the Lord.
As the months followed the dreams proved to be of the Lord, and boy, was I in for the hardest ride of my life yet.
