Dreamer that I am...

As many of you know, I have lots of dreams in the night! Most of them are super intense. Lately I have dreamed 3 times that my childhood cat who I was really attached to died (I had her from age 7 until she disappeared when I was 18). The interesting thing was that every time she died in my dream, the events were different, the surroundings were different, but each time she fell down a hole into an abyss. So weird!

Last night I dreamt that I was preparing for a battle... Now, I don't know if it's just that I recently watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy and people say I remind them of Eowyn or what, but it was really interesting nonetheless.

I dreamed I was part of a people that was going to war against an evil army. Someone said that it was to be "The War of the Birds" (Revelation 19:17-18 ??) and we all nodded in understanding. We were making preparation for battle and we didn't have enough men to fight the enormous army that we were preparing to meet so the women had to fight too. I had to carefully conceal my identity as a woman because if the opposing army found out that women were fighting, we would lose. There was this place in between the shoulder blades on a woman's back that the enemy wanted to stab, I don't know what the point was, but that was their goal in winning the war.

I wasn't afraid or nervous as I prepared for the battle aside from being very adamant that the women concealed their identity. My dream ended when I realized it was 11am and we needed to head off to battle, we were to meet the opposing army at noon. So we left to battle on horseback, I was troubled about the men being distracted in battle out of concern for the women they loved.

Just this morning I was reading in 2 Timothy and I came across these verses in Chapter 2,

You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please Him who enlisted him as a soldier.
2 Timothy 2:3-4

I want to be one who seeks the Lord's cause and advances His kingdom in the greatest way possible according to my calling without distraction, without restraint.