{"id":3361,"date":"2016-10-08T07:35:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T11:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2016-10-06T07:53:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T11:53:40","slug":"3361","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2016\/10\/3361.html","title":{"rendered":"The wedding dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I had a dream. Of course, I seem to dream during the day too, but last night\u2019s dream was thought provoking.<\/p>\n

The dream was of a couple getting married in a garage. The intentions of the couple was to stay married, so they “cleaned out” the garage of stuff first.<\/p>\n

Most garages are stuffed full of clutter and gadgets. I suppose if you don\u2019t have a garage, but have a storage rental or jammed packed closet, the plot of the dream would be the same.<\/p>\n

If the venue for weddings was a garage, the job of cleaning out the area would be good practice for an upcoming marriage. We can clean out of our minds old attachments. We can detach from the past and from beliefs held by one person, because in truth, we can\u2019t hold onto outgrown, cluttering beliefs.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, we have the ability to take on new thoughts and those thoughts can come from truth and love, the power I call God. The thoughts lead to productive communication and arguments. The thoughts lead to effective prayers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.\u201d\u2014Psalm 29:4, NRSV<\/p>\n

Back in the day, a belief I unloaded, and I don\u2019t even know how I got the belief in the first place, but a belief I unloaded was thinking that marriage was \u201cGod ordained\u201d or a vow to my husband and God nearly.<\/p>\n

Until I read in the Bible when Christ Jesus was quoted as saying, \u201cFor in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage<\/a>, but are like angels in heaven.\u201d\u2014Matthew 22:30, NRSV<\/p>\n

It was freeing to get rid of the thinking that marriage is a \u201cheaven\u201d thing or makes God happy. It\u2019s not. Marriage is only a tradition helpful to humanity when it is used to express joy, faithfulness, trust and goodness. I\u2019m still working on staying married, after thirty-three years, but the work is for myself to get closer to God, not an effort to make God happy.<\/p>\n

God knows us as individuals. Not couples. We are God\u2019s children and can feel right now, the attitude of heaven or harmony. We can feel unity and connection in love.<\/p>\n

Quoting from science & religion to God<\/a>: <\/em>“Outgrown thought processes must be changed, otherwise \u201cYou are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God\u2019s righteous judgment will be revealed.\u201d[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

“Godlike prayer is not defensive. If we try to defend outgrown knowledge and ideals, prayer gets twisted into useless arguments.”<\/p>\n

“The sublime grandeur of divine law will outshine sin, sorcery, lust, hypocrisy, envy, and outgrown doctrines and theories. Love will fulfill the rule of the spiritual equation and show Spirit\u2019s supremacy.”<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Rom. 2:5<\/p>\n

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