Blog of a crazy man

I had one of the strangest dreams last night. I can’t remember all of it, but this is the basic version: I was some weird kid who didn’t have a family. I was trying to find my family and I had to solve various puzzles/mysteries to find them. Note: these puzzles/mysteries were somehow inspired by Lost and Metroid Prime 2. There were also various people who were supposed to guide me to finding out who my family was.

In the waking world: during all of this I was waking up every four minutes to snooze my alarm clock for over an hour, but I would still be back in the dream as soon as I closed my eyes.

Somewhere in the dream I stopped being the weird kid and was playing the weird kid in a video game on the Nintendo Wii. About this time, God showed up in a hippie outfit to give me the last piece of the puzzle. I was fighting some crab-ish dude when God gave me the choice to enter a room with a portal away from the crab dude or the room with a photo book of my family. I chose the photo book and was again the kid. I looked through the photo book at my ancestors, whose photos all happened to be strange patterns formed from pasta and flies. Then the crab dude did a finishing move on me, which I didn’t see or feel, but everything went white and I was awake with the alarm clock going off again. I hit the snooze one last time. The snooze turns on the light on my alarm clock so that I can see what time it is, and the numbers appeared to me to read “666.” Startled, I hit the button again and it read “6:17,” which would not be a time when my alarm clock should have been going off, but maybe it was “6:16″ and I misread it.

I guess that’s what happens when you eat hot dogs and ketchup before you go to bed.

The other day I was feeling down. Life was piling on circumstances that I started to feel were too much. I spent the day moping around the house just trying to feel better, but it didn’t work. That night I opened my devotion book and read the devotion for the day. It was the first part of Psalm 89. It helped me. I couldn’t help but feel happy after I read it. I literally started laughing with joy. The following is the part that particularly helped me. I hope it can do the same for you.

Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm. The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fullness thereof, thou hast founded them. The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance. In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favor our horn shall be exalted. For the Lord is our defense; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.

No matter what life threw at me, God was always there. He can be my strength when I have none left to fight with. That thought gave me great happiness. I’m sharing it with you in hopes that it can do the same for you. Here is a link to the entire psalm.