Glimpses of God

I can remember my nightmare this time extremely vividly. Usually they fade away in a few minutes when I wake up. But lately, my nightmares have stuck with me longer...

This time, I was on a field trip with kids from my high school French class. There they were, as I remembered. Our bus driver was crazy. At one point, he reached behind his seat to put money in what was supposed to be his backpack, but it was actually mine, as I was sitting in the seat behind him. I told him he put the money in my backpack. He said thanks and I put the money in his backpack.

Now for the nightmare part of my dream...

He was pulling up to an area that looked much like an area that my local bus pulls up to on my trip to the mall, except that there was an abandoned old building and the road was big wooden pieces floating on what looked like the ocean. Everyone in the bus thought we were going to drown, but the bus driver put the bus in full gear and sped across the wooden pieces, nearly drowning. We waited until the bus had gotten across to breathe. It was absolutely terrifying. We went low into the water as we crossed, but we did not drown.

I have had this type of dream quite a lot. The almost drowning in a car has been in a few of my dreams before, especially drowning going around a bend... But that was not the end of the dream.

We begged the bus driver to stop and go to the abandoned building. He finally gave in. The abandoned building was full of holes and there were no walls, so we had to be very careful. As careful as I tried to be, I seemed to keep falling, except someone always was there to catch me. I must have fallen about 10 times and they were frustrated with me, but each time, they caught me.

It was scary to fall, but I imagine after waking up from the dream, that those people were like God. He catches us when we fall, no matter how many times, no matter how far, He is there. He rescues us no matter how frustrated He is with us. No matter how scary this life is, He is there...

I think this is the first time in my life that I saw glimpses of God in a nightmare...