Sometimes I have dreams worth writing down because they are what I call "significant." One night, in 2008, I had a dream that I knew was important - significant - so I wrote it down. I won't repeat it here, but I'll give the condensed version:
I went to work one day and there was construction on the second floor. No one was expecting it. My office and my supervisor's offices were being combined. There was a man who was newly hired. My supervisor gave me her list of contacts and decided to retire, partially because of the confusion. Another man (I have no idea who he was) cautioned me to be careful about what I said to the rest of the staff because it would influence their attitudes and whether it was a smooth or rough transition.
There was more, but that's enough for now.
Fast forward one year to the spring of 2009. I got to work and there was remodeling being done on the floor just above my office. The director had no idea that they were going to be starting anytime soon because she had been requesting it for months and getting no response. A few days later, my supervisor turned in her paperwork for retirement. In the weeks that followed, it was decided to combine my duties with those of my supervisor. With the remodeling progressing, the newly hired male librarian stopped by my office to comment on the noise from the "construction on the second floor." That 's when I remembered my dream. Everything had been moving so gradually that I had not thought about it until he used that phrase. That evening when I got home I pulled out the notebook in which I had written down the dream. There were seven things in the dream that were happening at that time - including my supervisor giving me her Rolodex with who to contact for orders, repairs, etc.
As I pondered these things I wondered why I had been given advance notice of these events. It was interesting, but there wasn't anything that happened that I needed to know. Nothing that happened could be prevented or would I benefit by knowing about it in advance. As I prayed about it, I asked the Lord why He had given me that dream. Here's what He said:
"Because I want you to know that no matter how unexpected or how surprising something may be, I already know about it and I have it under control."
I felt a wonderful sense of God's goodness at that moment. I must admit that later I wondered why I needed to know that, but I'm sure I'll find that out later. In the meanwhile I will live with the confidence that God IS good.
